Re: [DEB-USER] Re: ot -- Re: Full-screen editor in /bin
On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 17:37, Alan Shutko wrote:
> 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....
Exactly. If there was a single space between sentences, things
would look very run-together.
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