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From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
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Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes)
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Date: 01 Jun 2000 20:03:33 -0400
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grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) writes:

> On Thursday,  1 June 2000 at 16:29:25 -0600, Brett Glass 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?

Which part?  The first sentence was certainly false:  hand-set type in
English conventionally used spacing that was *between* one and two
spaces wide.  I'd question the second one, too, on the basis that most
business correspondence is now done with methods that attempt to
imitate that particular hand-type convention.

 - Lowell


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