It was proper in the olden days. "Sentences have one spacebar character following the period, not two. Please. You type a single spacebar character after a comma, after a colon, and after a semi-colon, dont you? Well, periods, exclamation points and question marks are just the same. Dave Siegels web site at http://www.dsiegel.com/ is worth visiting; he has thoughtful and helpful things to say about Internet page design. Heres what Dave has to say about it:
"... Putting two spaces between sentences is an old secretarys myth. While it wont affect your web pages, it makes your e-mail and word-processor documents harder to read. One of the first things you learn in a good typography class is that a word space should be about the width of the letter i. The extra space breaks the natural rhythm of the sentences. You dont do it in your handwriting, we never do it in books and newspapers, why should it be right for your word processor or your e-mail? It isnt. Even if you are using a fixed-width font, the period itself has quite a bit of white space, enough to distinguish it and the following word space from a regular word space. More space makes the sentences float apart, making life difficult for the reader, no matter what your typing teacher taught you. Since we typographers are very picky about such things, if a larger space were helpful, we would use it. " http://www.austlit.com/a/styleguide.html Elaine The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. --Oscar Wilde Hello Tom On Thursday, February 3, 2005, you wrote > I always thought that putting two spaces after a period at > the end of a sentence was proper structure. I think there > are two english teachers on this list and perhaps they can > comment on this. I'd be interested in hearing what is correct. > Tom > ** Original Message From: Hugh Vandervoort ** >>I've never heard of leaving two spaces between sentences, >>and I've never seen it in a web page. Where can I get some >>info on that? ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
