>> That is new to me. I thought that only one space is >> used after a colon. > > Why do people always think that space should exist > only in integer multiples of a basic space quantum?
This is what people used with old typewriters. > How about 1.5 times the wordspace after a period that ends a > sentence, 1.2 times the wordspace after a colon? Or some other > fraction? groff's `.ss' command allows this. Werner