4 Jan
2002
4 Jan
'02
6:06 a.m.
At 08:44 AM 1/4/2002 -0700, you wrote:
When I was in the 8th grade, one of the courses we were
required to take was
in typing. I've never gotten particularly good at it, but I did learn that
a period at the end of a sentence is followed by two spaces, for example.
While I, too, learned this rule in typing (9th grade), my book
editor and tech pubs friends tell me that 2 spaces after the end of the
sentence (whether it's ended by a period, full stop, exclamation point, or
other punctuation :-)) is no longer the rule. I was quite surprised. I
tend to do it anyway since it's the way I was taught.
GZ