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Subject:Re: Spacing after a period... From:Chris Hamilton <chamilton -at- GR -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 2 Jul 1997 10:13:30 -0500
From _The Mac is Not a Typewriter_:
"Use only one space after periods, colons, exclamation points, question
marks, quotation marks--any punctuation that separates two sentences."
In fact the name of the chapter in which it is contained is "One space
between sentences."
Chris
Beth Mazur wrote:
>
> At 10:44 AM -0400 7/2/97, Mike Collier - SSG wrote:
> >? Boy, would I like to see the complete reference for that statement!
>
> Ditto...especially since the author of The Mac is Not a Typewriter is
> Robin Williams, who I mentioned previously is a *strong* advocate of
> only one space after a period in typeset work. Sure wish I had the
> book here at work.
>
> >don't see how an application, especially Word, would allow the operating
> >system to dictate how it controls character spacing. Maybe TeachText
> >puts in extra spaces?
>
> I use PageMaker, Word, and related other apps on the mac (like SimpleText
> and BBEdit) on the mac and I've never experienced any such behavior.
>
> Beth Mazur
> mazur -at- maya -dot- com
>
>
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