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White Space(s) After Punctuation Marks
By Marc Kaufman

>
>P.S.  Oh yea, one last thing.  I try to spell check everything before
>      I pass it on.  There are days (like today) where there are so
>      many spelling errors that its incredible.  I'd don't want to
>      discourage anyone from submitting an article because they are not
>      sure of the spelling of something, but it would be helpful if
>      you'd proofread your submissions.  Correct spelling, and spaces
>      after punctuation marks (and two spaces at the ends of sentences)
>      would help a lot.  Thanks.

Jody:

My buddies at Adobe tell me that two spaces at the end of sentences is
passe, especially for proportionally spaced text (which the digest
tends not to be, of course, since we are all using glass TTY
emulators). One space is the new(?) norm.

Marc

 [ Editor's Note:
 [
 [ I'll resist the temptation to put an extra space after the period
 [ in the line above   ;-)
 [
 [ I'm still very comfortable with how double-space after the end of
 [ a sentence looks in a monospace font.  It will be a hard habit
 [ to break (If I decide to try...).
 [
 [ Jody



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Key Words in Subject:  After, Marks, Punctuation, Space(s, White