From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 13:37:20 EDT
At 13:29 -0400 2003-07-07, Frank da Cruz wrote:
>Nobody is springing to the defense of this so I'll only say that
>it's a time-honored practice and we shouldn't be so quick to
>disparage it, lest we be disparaged several years hence for the
>things we do :-)
It's rotten, and when I typeset books
(http://www.evertype.com/books.html) I always have to clean up the
text which is invariably littered with these artifacts of old
technology.
>In the world of plain text, two spaces after a sentence-ending
>period, exclamation mark, question mark, or other mark is actually
>rather handy to distinguish sentence enders from the same marks used
>in other ways, esp. periods in abbreviations.
Fie! Fie! Unclean! Unclean!
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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