The rule now is 1 space after a period. Two spaces after a period was the rule on a typewriter, because the fonts weren't proportional, they were monospace. This led to uneven spacing of words on paper, so two spaces was the rule.
Nowadays, on a computer, the fonts are proportional. For instance on a typewriter, the characters i and a take the same amount of space. But on a word processor, i and a dont take the same amount of space. Thus, no need for two spaces. This is a monospace font. This is a proportional font. Joe On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 2:59 PM Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote: > 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... > > > Specifically, not after titles: "Ms. Smith", "Dr. Jones:. Also bad > places for > automatic linebreaks. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
