4 Jan
2002
4 Jan
'02
7:59 a.m.
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. 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. I imagine Hans was taught
that it's "wrong", since I imagine he learned to type in German.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York