Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 20:25:23 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" <troy@picus.com> To: <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIGECECAAA.troy@picus.com> In-Reply-To: <44g0qxymne.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>
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** From: Lowell Gilbert ** 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. ** Thanks for the reminder. I do remember having used several antique typewriters that had a "half-space" key. It was for exactly this purpose, though seldom used because most typewriters lacked this feature. It was nice for getting text centered correctly though. -Troy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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