From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 25 18:30:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A3616A62C for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:30:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from smtp.mel.people.net.au (smtp.mel.people.net.au [218.214.17.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD75643D46 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:30:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: (qmail 31907 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2006 18:30:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blizzard.dnsalias.org) (218.214.144.129) by smtp.mel.people.net.au with SMTP; 25 Aug 2006 18:30:34 -0000 Received: by blizzard.dnsalias.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2B3E351F; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:30:31 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:30:31 +1000 From: andrew clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060825183031.GA16828@ozzmosis.com> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060825111756.02360a00@broadpark.no> <200608250550.05345.daeg@houston.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200608250550.05345.daeg@houston.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Subject: Re: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:30:41 -0000 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)