4 Jan
2002
4 Jan
'02
7:23 a.m.
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Stan Barr wrote:
You are, of course, quite right - That's what I *really* meant. ;-)
I was taught all that in school (back in the '50s) as it was expected
that we would all be using typewriters in the brave new future, plus I
used to help edit the school magazine. I still use these conventions
automatically (mostly...I tend not to indent paras on here).
Talking to younger relatives today they gave me blank looks, so I guess
they no longer teach any text layout in school - just when word processors
could actually make such learning useful to them!
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
It's one of the syntax elements of
standard written English, as taught
in Britain anyway for many, many years. One space after a comma, two after
a period, exclamation or question mark, indent the first character of a
paragraph, etc...
These are all _typesetting_ rules, and not so much grammar rules.