On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 9:56:30 AM, Mary Bull wrote:
MB I think that this one space between the full stop (period) and the
MB capital (upper case) letter of the following sentence is a
MB convention agreed upon in most word processors and probably the
MB authors of TB! are just following the word-processor programmers.
It used to be, in the days of typewriters, that you put two spaces at
the end of a sentence. However with the advent of word-processors, and
specifically with the advent of full-justification of paragraphs (ie
where each line spreads out to both left right margins), the
double-space leads to some...uh, interesting...results. You get huge
gaps where you had two spaces. So the convention then became to leave
only one space between sentences.
The one-space system is now the accepted norm, but if you're using
left-justification it really doesn't matter too much, as it doesn't make
a lot of difference to the appearance of the text. Since I'm unlikely to
use a typewriter regularly at any time in the future, I choose to stick
with the one-space system, purely for simplicity :-)
--
Deborah
Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information:
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