7 Jan
2002
7 Jan
'02
12:30 a.m.
I, too, find it of immense interest. I recall being taught that
paragraphs were indented 5 spaces. I also remember that this was not
universal, as there was another variation, called "block style" which was
not indented at all.
I have been looking at a number of books, and noticed that some have a
single space between sentences, others two spaces. This occurrs in both
US and UK editions. I even noticed a German grammar in blackletter that
uses the double spaces, although it was US printed. I do notice, though,
that the double spacing enhances the readability of the text.
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Hans Franke wrote:
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
On Jan 4,
18:33, Hans Franke 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.
> Thank you very much. So it seams there is a 'school' forcing this in
> the US .... and I always wondered why some people add two spaces after
> a period.
It's a recognised standard in English.
Well, from some other messages I got the idea that there are still
some more differences between Englisch and US typing rules.
The idea is to make sentence spaces larger than
word spaces.
Curiously, it's not common in the printing profession, and not at
all in other languages.
Well, Bear Stricklins Mail (Danke) added quite some flesh to this.
I imagine Hans was taught that it's
"wrong", since I imagine
he learned to type in German.
I was well aware about special (manual) handling for spaces on
old typesetting machinerie, but never bridged the gap to typewriter
usage. And no, I've never been told it's wrong - the question
simply never came up at all. At least for every day typing (yes,
I did take two years a typin' class at school, but all wat's left
is the proper use of the space key :) there was only two trules
about spaces (AFAIR): Three (or one, sinplified) at the beginning
of a new paragraph, and one after each punktuation (and none before).
We been told about some odd formats for accounting, but I realy don't
remember.
As for myself, at some point I startet to insert a space before
all exklamation and question marks to make them better visibly,
but that's against any 'common' style.
Gruss
H.
P.S.: In my opinion this facts are _very_ on topic, because it
touches a lot of the heritage computing took from typesetting
and typewriteing.
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