Re: Spacing after a period...

Subject: Re: Spacing after a period...
From: Beth Mazur <mazur -at- MAYA -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 10:09:18 -0500

At 8:49 AM -0500 7/2/97, Phillip Winn wrote:

>Umm, perhaps I'm being obtuse, but I don't believe the questions was "What
>do people do?" or "Why?" but rather "Which is correct?"

According to Collier's Rules for Desktop Design and Typography, 1991 (with
forward by Erik Spiekermann) on page 42:

"Typists make two spaces after a full point before beginning the
next sentence. This looks horrible when typeset, so always search
for and replace any double spaces."

I don't have the book in front of me to quote directly, but I know that
in The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the
Visual Novice, 1994, (and probably many of her other books) Robin Williams
is *vehemently* against two spaces in typeset text.

Now given that Spiekermann himself says that rules are meant to be
broken, if I were really concerned about this, I'd pick a publication
that I wanted to emulate and do what they do.

Beth Mazur
mazur -at- maya -dot- com

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