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Re: should . be followed by doublespace?



On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:09:01AM -0700, Wendell Cochran wrote:
> As for space between sentences, in recent years I find more & more
> confusion caused by the single space.  Consider `. . . meanwhile, back
> in D. C. Power to the people . . .'  (That's 2 sentences.  See also
> `D. C. Power Lab' in the Jargon File.) . . .

I think I would solve this problem by not using an internal space in
"D.C.", since I find it looks unsightly in monospaced text anyway.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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