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Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes)
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>
> Ok...
>
> I was just summarizing what others were saying and tossing in my own .02.
>
> Greg said one space.  Someone else from AU said 2.
>
> Yet another person indicated that his British friends said 2.
>
> I know 2 from my own typing class back in '84.
>

I believe (not to justify it) that the main argument is that manual
typesetting and typewriting are antiquated and as such using a two-space
convention is no longer necessary.

I happen to believe that such thinking is ignorant and lazy.
Blah.

Dan

> so...
>
> -Troy
>




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