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Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence


From: Sivaram Neelakantan
Subject: Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:39:06 +0530
User-agent: Gnus/5.110019 (No Gnus v0.19) Emacs/24.1 (windows-nt)

On Thu, Sep 27 2012,Eric Abrahamsen wrote:


[snipped 21 lines]

> "2.1.4 Use a single word space between sentences.
>
> In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in
> typography and type design, many compositors were encouraged to
> stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of
> twentieth-century typists were then taught to do the same, by
> hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing as well
> as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint
> Victorian habit."
>

I spend 10 years learning to double space because Emacs says so and
M-q plays nice to me and you dig this out?

Just when I know something, someone changes the rules!  Again. :-)

 sivaram
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