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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>
Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit:
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At 09:07 02-06-2000 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> That convention dates back to the time of hand-set type and has, of late,
>> been abandoned. One space is now not only acceptable but preferred in
>> business correspondence.
>
>Do you have any documentation to back this up?

I have stayed out of this discussion (after all, I am not a native English
speaker, and we certainly do not use two spaces in Slovak).

I was quite surprised about the double spacing when I came to America. I do
recall having read somewhere several years ago that, indeed, one space was
preferred now. I do not remember where I read it (*maybe* Writer's
Digest?), I just remember having read it, and being happy about it (since
it allowed me to go back to the way I used to do back home).

Cheers,
Adam


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