Re: RFC: new vertical layout engine

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 07:28:33PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
> In message <address@hidden>, Werner LEMBERG  
> <address@hidden> writes
>> Indeed, I just see that @frenchspacing is only used for French and
>> Japanese (the latter only partially).  It should be activated for all
>> languages except, perhaps, English.  Note that I don't care what you
>> native speakers actually decide for English :-)
>
> As a native English speaker (that's English, not American), I'd say that  
> two spaces are wrong, too.

Oh, in case anybody was wondering: my father is pure native
British, educated at Oxford, and considers the 1978 Fowler's
Modern English second revised edition (printed in Oxford) to be
the definitive guide to English writing.  There's no American
influence here!

Cheers,
- Graham