Jamin W. Collins wrote: > General concensus seems to use 2 spaces when using a monospaced font and 1 > when using a proportional font. One remaining problem is that email is just ASCII codes with no indication of what font should be used. Since MS Outhouse defaults to using a proportional font even for non-HTML mail, I'm not sure that one could still reasonably argue that "most" people view mail with a monospaced font. I suppose Outhouse users are a minority around here, though. Most X-based mail clients that I've seen default to "fixed", though there's nothing stopping you from changing it to "helvetica" if you want. Another interesting point of reference is the standard behavior of HTML rendering (which isn't directly related to email except for users of Outhouse and similarly brain-damaged clients that generate HTML mail by default, but it is, at least, a form of text rendering that is very common and that most of us probably see every day). Unless you go out of your way to add non-breaking-space entities, HTML will always consolidate multiple whitespace characters into a single space (well, except in <pre> or <code> blocks, of course). I've never heard of any HTML renderer that tried to add extra space between sentences, regardless of the font being used. Craig
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