I got my information from Robert Bringhurst's book "The Elements of
Typographic Style."
I have noticed that older books from the 19th century had wider spacing
after sentence ending punctuation. Newer books, say from the mid 20th
century on, seem to have narrower spacing between sentences.
Virgil
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From: James Knott
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Virgil Arrington wrote:
The typographic standard is to only use one space between sentences
with proportionally spaced fonts.
In the old hand set type (which I have worked with) there were different
width spaces (en & em quads), depending on where they were used.
Typically, an en quad was used between words and an em quad between
sentences. The names refer to the width of upper case N and M
characters. So, the space between words was as wide as an N and between
sentences, an M. There were also wider ones, such as double M and
triple M. Typesetting machines, such as the Linotype also had provision
for different width spaces.
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