Fredrik Lundh wrote: >Greg Ward wrote: > > > >>Which, after whitespace-mangling, becomes >> >> ... end of a line. And here's ... >> >>which is incorrect (sentences should be separated by two spaces in >>fixed-width fonts). >> >> > >that depends on the locale. > >the two space rule does not apply to swedish, for example. > >and googling for "two space rule" and "one space after" + period >makes me think it doesn't really apply to english either... see eg > >http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.OneSpaceorTwo.html > > "There is a traditional American practice, favored by some, > of leaving two spaces after colons and periods. This practice > is discouraged /.../" > >(and thousands of similar entries. from what I can tell, the more >*real* research done by an author, the more likely he is to come >down on the one space side...) > > I did some research on this in a previous life, and my memory is that the two-space rule was designed, much like using underscores, as a guide to the typesetter, since periods are easily missed. Underscores were an indication that the text should be emphasized, and no well-typeset document will include real underscores (except for "effect"). --da
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