Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2008-03-07, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Professional typesetters, using proportional fonts, don't use double- >> spaces because it throws off word spacing and line justification and just >> plain looks ugly. > > They do, however, put more space between sentences than they do > between words within a sentence. It is that practice which the > "two spaces after a period" rule in typewriting is attempting > to emulate.
Not in most books I've read. AFAICT, it's a (thankfully) disappearing practice in the typesetting profession. -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
