Hi there!
On 20 Apr 00, at 15:28, Steve Lamb wrote
about "OT: spaces after. ":
> Got into the habit of hitting two spaces after hard stops a good 10+ years
> ago. It is 2nd nature now.
Actually, it's the standard of US/British typesetting also;-) Take any book from
your bookshelve and measure the spaces (of course, the book typeset in
Word will not do;-)). It's not doublespace that is used after the period, but it's
noticeably larger then the spacing between the words in the sentence. I don't
know the exact multiplier;-(
> > P.S. The question doesn't apply to those here using TeX as I do. That is, TeX
> > does this trick automatically, provided that the \frenchspacing option is set
> > (which is the default).
>
> IIRC some editors also have the option to include the double space after a
> hard stop if configured to do so. I think joe can do it, but don't quote me
> on that since it has been about a year since I've used joe in any serious
> capacity.
In a way, I don't need this at all, since TeX will insert the correctly measured
enlarged space after the period whatever number of spaces are there in my
input file (i.e. in the editor;-)). It was just the practice that interested me;-)
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