Proportional Spacing
By Jim Heyworth
Marc Kaufman writes:
> My buddies at Adobe tell me that two spaces at the end of sentences is
> passe, especially for proportionally spaced text... One space is the
> new(?) norm.
Until I trained Eudora to show me messages in a uniformly-spaced font none of the ASCII art worked worth a darn. Doesn't "adobe" mean "Unburnt sun-dried brick ?" Hmmmm....
I vote for two spaces. I can read it better.
Besides that's the way I learned it over 40 years ago and I seem to recall from the days when letterpress printing was one of my hobbies (remember the "Print Your Own" ads in Popular Mechanics ?) the minimum _proportional_ space after a period was an "em" and not an "en."
Jim in Sechelt
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