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At 11:58 AM 6/2/2000, Terry Lambert wrote:

>Please cite an English textbook on this, 

See

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0767903722/ref=ed_oe_p/002-9186126-2223249

.... Also

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201339854/ref=sim_books/002-9186126-2223249

and

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226103897/wedwordcom/002-9186126-2223249

>rather than some stupid
>MBA book, and I'll refrain from citing MBA books on how code
>should be written.

I'd think that an "MBA book," as you call it, is much more likely
to be an authority on business correspondence than on programming.

Also, here are some links to style guides around the Web, all
of which say that it is desirable to use one space after a period 
that ends a sentence. (These are only the results of a brief search;
I'm sure there are many more.)

http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_spacing.htm

http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/wsr/csc120/wp1spa97.htm

http://www.stidolph.com/SEN/style.html

http://www.hccs.cc.tx.us/system/public_info/gg-dtp.htm

http://itc.dixie.edu/reber/mlastyle/typing.htm

http://www.responsetv.com/styleguide.html

http://www.marsdenshs.qld.edu.au/cameos/business/stylemanual/06spaces.html

http://scrc.cit.nih.gov/dtp/tut/type/index.html

http://www.apnet.com/narwhal/marguide.htm

http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/training/proofing/proofing.html

http://www.colorado.edu/Publications/styleguide/computers.html

http://www.ptloma.edu/communicationsoffice/PL_style_guide.htm

http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/~tripp/punc.html

http://www.waldenu.edu/acad-rsrcs/writing-center/spots/spot6.html

http://webword.com/reports/period.html

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~sppathau/acqnotes.html

http://www.science.smith.edu/geology/gmr/instructions/Format_instructions.html

http://www.journalofromanarch.com/edit.html

http://www.cidi.oas.org/edu40anivGuide.htm

http://www.the-efa.org/news/gramglean.html#onespace

--Brett



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