On 6 Jul 2004 at 11:31, shirling & neueweise wrote: > 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 don't know if it was specific to the US, but it is definitely the case that I was taught two spaces in typing class, as was everyone I know who took typing classes on typewriters (i.e., learned to type before computers). And it was only after proportional-spaced fonts came to the normal computer user that it was abandoned in favor of what was explained as normal typographic convention for proportional fonts (even in the age of typewriters). There are plenty of different typographic conventions in different countries, such as different styles of quotation marks and different methods for indicating emphasis, so it shouldn't be surprising that the two spaces after the period might also be country-specific. But today, it's not justified any longer. Or, so it seems to me. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
