Michael Everson scripsit: > >In the world of plain text, two spaces after a sentence-ending > >period, exclamation mark, question mark, or other mark is actually > >rather handy to distinguish sentence enders from the same marks used > >in other ways, esp. periods in abbreviations. > > Fie! Fie! Unclean! Unclean!
A classic flamewar in minature between cod-Aristotelians who see a text as nothing more than the formal cause of its rendered form, and pseudo-Platonists who think a text has a multitude of purposes for some of which rendering is utterly irrelevant. Personally I prefer to eschew the problem by believing both. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Humpty Dump Dublin squeaks through his norse Humpty Dump Dublin hath a horrible vorse But for all his kinks English / And his irismanx brogues Humpty Dump Dublin's grandada of all rogues. --Cousin James
