Re: To Space or not to Space

Subject: Re: To Space or not to Space
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 08:59:04 -0400




nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il wrote:

Tom writes:

I guess to sum this up, the two spaces after the period does not apply now since word processing software adds a space anyway


As it says in Ecclesiastes, there is a time to summarize and a time to measure. In my experience, the idea
that word processors distinguish between spaces in mid-sentence and spaces between sentences measures out as a myth.



Good point. All you search and destroy fans should keep in mind that wantonly replacing period-space with period-space-space is going to add extra space after every abbreviation.


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