On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Bill Potts wrote:
> Strangely enough, when French sentences end in ? or !, there's a space
> before the punctuation. It can screw up line wrap no end in a word
> processor.
Bill and Louis,
Yes, I notice that Louis includes the space consistently, but I have never
observed problems with line wrap in his e-mail postings.
However, I *do* observe absence of line wrap in postings by some US
subscribers, even without the spaces!
Gene.
Even in English, this was a common convention 100-150 years ago, in printed material.
No space between word and comma or word and period;
a space between word and semicolon, colon, question mark, or exclamation point.
Sort of quaint when reading old material.
Carleton
