Apparently this is a matter of preference and/or habit as it's easy to find opinions on either side. My sister is a legal secretary at a large law firm in DC, and they use two spaces. You never know what you're gonna' learn from this list.
From: http://www.fontsite.com/Pages/RulesOfType/ROT0997.html 1. "Insert only a single space after all punctuation. If you grew up prior to the advent of desktop publishing, chances are you were taught to put two spaces after periods, question marks, exclamation marks, and colons. The rationale was that it is easier for the eye to distinguish sentences in this fashion. When using monospaced fonts (read: typewriter fonts), there might be some validity to this. But this only applied to documents created with a typewriter. Since the advent of the printing press in the 15th century, typesetters have never inserted two spaces after punctuation. As far as I can tell, the practice of inserting two spaces between sentences originated with high school typing teachers. It sure didnt originate in the world of typography. Ive heard the technique referred to as the French method, and despite their admiration for Jerry Lewis, I doubt even the French would adopt such a method. When preparing text for printing, regardless of the font, use only one space after all punctuation. There are no exceptions to this. Well, except one. While not necessary, it is acceptable and often more readable when composing e-mail (text that will be read online and not printed) to insert two spaces after periods, question and exclamation marks, and colons." **************************************************************************** ** Geeze, I'm only 45 and I was taught that when I took typing in high school! LOL! I guess some could call that the "old days". ;-) Some of that doesn't make sense, since a comma is not the same as a period. A comma is just a continuation of the SAME sentence, when of course a period denotes the ending of a sentence and the start of another, and I find it much easier to read a doc WITH double spaces after a sentence ends. Why do so many books for example have the double space? I checked my local newspaper and it uses single spaces. I looked through some of my email and some use double, some use single. Apparently it just depends on what one was taught and from whom.....and in which era. ;-) -Clint ============= 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 =====================================================
