Re: French spacing vs single space after punctuation.

[Shawn <shawn -at- cohodata -dot- com>]

Thank you for the correction. I actually appreciate that... even though I
also realize that my rant was ruined by my technical error!

Yes, English spacing!

:)

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:

> 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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