I don't know if it's a US tradition or not, but that is how I learned to type.
Despite my youthful appearance, I was one of the last people at my high school to take typing class--complete with the two spaces after a period rule. After collge I had a boss with a pet peeve for two spaces after a period when typing on the computer and I had to modify my typing. You wanna talk about a hard habit to break... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shirling & neueweise Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 12:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Finale] OT: typographic standards [was: FinMac2004 crashes] i have always perceived this as being specific to the states, it _seems_ to me that all the messages where i have noticed this habit were written by americans (except for a friend of mine who whacks the hell out of the space bar with her thumb, causing 2-3 spaces between each word!). i am curious though, are there any non-americans who have done this, or still do this, and is it (was it ever?) a common practice in your country as well? >From: "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Because we are old geezers who learned to type on typewriters, which >were monospaced and where the standard practice was two spaces after >the period at the end of a sentence. okay, no silly jokes about smallcase chippewa being the last person one should trust to understand typographic standards, eh? three spaces following periods, two following question and exclamation marks... -- shirling & neueweise \................/ new music notation specialists mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :.../ http://newmusicnotation.com ++ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
