Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.9790.1348681903.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

> > The number of spaces between English sentences has been 
> > gradually switching from two to one.
> 
> Dunno about that.  Mostly I think people just use plain text less and 
> formatted
> text more nowadays.

Right. The old convention was for typewriters with fixed-width fonts, 
and Emacs was designed for the same type of text processing.

I don't think it was ever applied to typeset text, and most people now 
use word processors that generate comparable output.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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