----- Original Message ----- From: "Carroll Grigsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] What would be the standard document format?
> On Sunday 21 April 2002 07:19 pm, Lee wrote: > > On Sunday 21 April 2002 06:28 pm, you wrote: > > > On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 09:27, Randy Kramer wrote: > > > > Michael wrote: > > > > > I thought double spacing was outdated anyway in modern business > > > > > communications. Still personal preferences are what life thrives on. > > > > > > > > Hmm, I'm on the old side, but I never saw any reference to double > > > > spacing being outdated except in Internet / HTML / computer related > > > > discussions -- it makes me suspect that somebody decided putting two > > > > spaces after the punctuation ending a sentence would be too difficult > > > > for a computer to deal with (or didn't even know it was the established > > > > practise) and simply ignored it. (KISS?) > > > > > > I agree with your suspicions Randy; with the qualification that perhaps > > > it had a little more to do with people than computers. > > > > > > > That suspicion sort of destroys my faith in computers / programmers. > > > > (Well, it might have been destroyed before then ;-) > > > > > > > > (sorry, not intended to sound like a rant) > > > > > > > > (Two spaces are still used in all the business correspondence I send > > > > and receive.) > > > > > > I've also been using two space sentence endings in all my emails, > > > correspondence, business letters, reports, etc etc for years because it > > > is the correct method, and I've never had a problem with "rivers of > > > white". I note that most other recent books that I have here on the > > > shelves also have the correct sentence end spacing also; including > > > Kernigan and Ritchie's "The C Programming Language." > > > > > > This two space controversy sounds much like what I've heard this before; > > > newer is good, old is bad. Only the new concepts should exist, and are > > > not compatible with the stuff that evolved from the past; GUI's are more > > > advanced than CLI's; music of this generation is better than the last > > > generation's crap, blah blah blah ad infinitim. For me, some sentence > > > separation is easier to read as opposed to run-on sentences. > > > > > > > Randy Kramer > > > > > > LX > > > > Something else to consider. When a letter crosses my desk, my first urge > > before reading is to throw it away. Traditional appearance could well make > > the difference. Us old timers are comfortable with 2 spaces. > > > > Then there are days when everything goes in the round file. After all, if > > it's really important, they'll try again. > > > > Lee > > Lee: > Guess I'm not the only cranky old bastard on the list :^). > > Reading through these posts, I had a flashback to a print shop class in > junior high where we learned the basics of setting type by hand. I have a > vague recollection that en spaces where used between words and em spaces > between sentences. Then, at the end of the line, thinner spaces were inserted > at various points in the line in order to justify the type. This was for not > just esthetics, but for a very practical reason, as well: If the type was not > properly justified it would fall out of the stick or, worse yet, fall apart > in the press. > > For those who have no idea what an em and en are, an em is a space whose > width is equivalent to the height of the type, and an en is half the width of > an em. > > -- cmg I had the same class in Junior High (middle school was a grassy area called the "quad"). We made "business cards", it was messy fun. JRD/ms ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 4/19/2002
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