Hugh Myers wrote > I had a good deal of correspondence with folks across the pond and never > thought twice about the double space post-sentence.
Your're certainly right, but I strongly suspect that all this correspondence was in English. Let me assure you that Urs is right: in Germany, without any doubt, there is no double space. And, as you surely know, we Germans are famous for our over-regulation: There even is a common DIN (German Institute for Standardization) standard: DIN 5008 Regeln für Maschinenschreiben (Typewriting standards) It says that there is only ONE space after punctuation marks according to German standards. The Duden, a kind of German Bible of orthography containing the official rules, traditionally contains a chapter about typewriting---stating there is one space only after the end of a sentence. The same holds true for France, too, by the way (hence the term "French spacing"). Finally Associated Press Stylebook (!): "Use a single space after a period at the end of a sentence." Quintessence: There are far more languages than American English in the world and, consequently, there has always been a certain variety of typographic conventions. All the best, Torsten -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
