On 5/9/18 4:11 PM, Adele Shaak wrote:
However, when digital printers became available people could use good-looking fonts that had proportional spacing, and the double space was no longer necessary.
The double space is no longer necessary when fed to a proper typesetting program that knows how to make an end-of-sentence. But the double space became more necessary than ever when we began writing text that would be displayed in a different font and type size for every reader -- and a *proper* typesetting program can deal with extra spaces. Heck, PC-Write, one of the very first word processors, had a "remove extra spaces" button. And if you want to feed the text to a typesetting program that isn't that advanced, nothing is quicker and easier than |find ". "| |replace". "| |all|. HTML looks like a way out when you are writing it, but HTML fonts are only suggestions -- and in addition to readers who say "Ugh! Serif/sans serif type! Click, ah, that's better.", some browsers won't have the suggested font on hand and will substitute whatever is available. -- Joy Beeson http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
