Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
As a non English speaking person that's very interesting. In Swedish
there has never been an extra space required and I started to learn
English at school in 1975, and nobody ever mentioned an extra space.
So exactly when did this change from being required to NOT being
required?
I've always been in the habit of adding an extra space between
sentences. It simply looks better, because each sentence stands out by
itself. When you get into type setting, there's a whole list of rules
for making text look right. Back when metal type was used, there were
spaces called N quads and M quads. They were the same with as the
letter, but didn't print. You'd use an N quad between words in a
sentence and M quads between sentences.
BTW, many years ago, I used to do some hand set typesetting, picking
letters out of a large tray or "case" as shown in this article (near the
bottom). A printing shop would have a cabinet containing several cases
and a sloped surface on the top where the composition was done.
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