Jerry Baker wrote: > Rob Stow says: > >> >> Read my post again - I didn't "declare an old standard nonsense", >> I said that thinking that the rationale for it was based on >> typewriters with monospaced fonts was nonsense. Ie., the old >> standard was used even when writing by hand back in the days when >> very few people used typewriters and almost no one used computers. >> >> Rob > > > How exactly do you make sure that your hand positions the first letter > of a new sentence exactly two spaces after the last? I don't have that > kind of motor skill, nor the perceptual acuity that would be required. > Do others? >
Obviously you didn't do anything "exactly" - you just guesstimated. Some teachers were very fussy about how closely you adhered to the standard, while most were satisfied if you just used enough white space between sentences to make the separations blatantly larger than the separations between words within a sentence. It really wasn't much of an issue - by the time you finished third grade you had the habit ingrained pretty thoroughly. -- MSWord 2000 'offensive to lesbians,' says rock star http://www.theregus.com/content/28/25704.html rob.stow is my name sk.sympatico.ca provides me with this e-mail account If you can't figure it out from there ask Mommy for help. ------------------------------------------------------------- Mail from the the following domains are assumed to be spam and are deleted by my filters: hotmail.com, ziplip.com, excite.com, bellsouth.net, yahoo.com
