Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:30:31 +1000 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Message-ID: <20060825183031.GA16828@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <200608250550.05345.daeg@houston.rr.com> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060825111756.02360a00@broadpark.no> <200608250550.05345.daeg@houston.rr.com>
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 05:50:04AM -0500, David J Brooks wrote: > > The difference for you with untrained eyes is the double spacing after > > the dot instead of the standard single spacing. > > > > I was just curious if there's a reason to this or not. > > Back in the Jurassic era, when typewriters still roamed the earth, it was a > convention to leave a double-space following a period so that the reader > could more easily distinguish the end of a sentence. With the advent of word > processors (and proportional fonts) this double-spacing convention lapsed. For those playing at home, this is called "French spacing": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_spacing_(English)
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