*JRR Tolkien
On 2020-02-27 22:43, Bob Bridges wrote:
I think most people spell that without any spaces at all, ie "i.e.". Also "e.g.". Me, I eschew periods in abbreviations that
are common enough; "ie", "eg", "Mr", "Dr", "JRR Tolkein" and so on. I add them to my dictionary so
spell-check doesn't get annoyed. (Spell-check always believes me, smart little bugger that it is.)
I gather that the adherents to "French spacing" (two spaces after the end of a
sentence - and, by the way, after a colon which comes at the end of a full-sentence
clause) are slightly in the minority. I'd never heard that it's a mark of old folks,
just that some people hate it and some insist on it.
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Reason: Nor that it was not.
John: But I must think it is one or the other.
Reason: By my father's soul, you must NOT -- until you have some evidence.
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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Mike Schwab
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2020 18:01
Single space after a period if not end of sentence. I. E. abbreviations.
--- On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 2:59 PM Paul Gilmartin
<[email protected]> wrote:
Specifically, not after titles: "Ms. Smith", "Dr. Jones:. Also bad places
for
automatic linebreaks.
--- On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 15:48:44 -0500, Steve Smith wrote:
Thanks for another reminder I'm "really old" :-). The rule, btw, is two
spaces at the end of a sentence. And I think it makes at least as much
sense for proportional fonts as mono. You can (and I do) have Word check
to make sure they're always there...
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