https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126269
--- Comment #6 from [email protected] --- (In reply to mroe from comment #4) > Please provide informations (link?) which describes that 2 spaces after a > sentence is typographical correct. (Only this can and will be a basis for a > possible change.) > Monospaced fonts are equivalent to the fonts of a typewriter. I've never > seen that anyone wrote two spaces after a sentence. Here's a link to a blog post that describes the historical development of sentence spacing: http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324 Here are some relevant excerpts: * Literally centuries of typesetters and printers believed that a wider space was necessary after a period, particularly in the English-speaking world. It was the standard since at least the time that William Caslon created the first English typeface in the early 1700s (and part of a tradition that went back further), and it was not seriously questioned among English or American typesetters until the 1920s or so. * The “standard” of one space is maybe 60 years old at the most, with some publishers retaining wider spaces as a house style well into the 1950s and even a few in the 1960s. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the issue.
