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Re: French spacing vs single space after punctuation.

Subject: Re: French spacing vs single space after punctuation.
From: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: shawn -at- cohodata -dot- com, Robert Courtney <bobsc1 -at- earthlink -dot- net>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 16:57:38 -0700

Double spacing after sentences, colons and semicolons is actually called "English spacing."

"French spacing" refers to a system in which single spaces are placed both before and after certain punctuation marks.

Gene Kim-Eng



On 5/25/2015 4:18 PM, Shawn wrote:


French spacing (or double spacing) is one of my few pet peeves.

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