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Re: [DEB-USER] Re: ot -- Re: Full-screen editor in /bin



Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> writes:

> Double-spacing is a holdover from typing classes (and I'm not sure why
> we did it even then). Nowadays, there's no need for it.

It's a holdover because on a monospaced typewriter, the double-space
helps differentiate sentences.  It's not needed on typeset things,
but your message is a monospace font....

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
Life is a fractal.



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