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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:

>On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
>> :>    I've never heard of that.  I've always found that two spaces
>> :> after end-of-sentence punctuation makes things easier to read!
>> :
>> :I vote for two spaces after the period before the start of a new sentence.
>> :Even in the digital age, I've always found that the two spaces make
>
>>     I guess they don't teach manual typewriting classes any more :-)
>>     It *had* to be two spaces or you got seriously marked down!
>
>Doesn't apply here in Europe. I vote against putting in too much
>stars&stripes dependent stuff... ;-)
>
>Andrzej Bialecki

It does apply in the UK - two spaces is pretty standard.  I guess this
isn't an Americanism (for once!)

Aled



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