On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:54:58 -0500 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> On 11/13/2014 04:34 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 11/13/2014 12:56 PM, john Culleton wrote: > >> When the typewriter > >> came along the instructions were to put two > >> space characters after a full stop to > >> emulate this practice. > > > > You do know, don't you, that the typewriter > > was invented in the 1860's, and The > > Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) was probably > > the first book written using a typewriter? > > All of this long predates everything in your > > history. > > > You have to consider that with John, everything > is another opportunity to talk about TeX, which > as we know, he is quite fond of. > > Greg > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Unlimited Disk, Data Transfer, PHP/MySQL Domain > Hosting http://www.doteasy.com OK. However for printed books in the U.S.the extra space after punctuation persisted until at least 1923 and probably later. I had one book printed in the 1860's but it seems to have disappeared. It had extra space as I recall. I found one book published as recently as 1960 that had extra space after each period but that was a reprint of some Sherlock Holmes stories so perhaps that was the motive. I like and use a variety of Open Source programs. I mention TeX a lot but if you notice my sig block I advertise a book on a Scribus application. There are horses for courses and happily we have a long list of programs to choose from. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
