From: John Burger (john@mitre.org)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 13:36:26 EDT
From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
> It's a typewriter-based convention, and is suitable for monowidth fonts
> only. The space after a sentence-ending full stop in justified
> contexts
> is no bigger than any other space, in general.
Really? TeX seems to "stretch" this space more than ordinary
inter-word spaces in justified text - there are even special commands
to tell TeX when a period really is (or isn't) end-of-sentence. I had
always assumed that this came from established type-setting practice -
no?
- John Burger
MITRE
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