4 Jan
2002
4 Jan
'02
11:35 a.m.
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
From: "Christopher Smith"
<csmith(a)amdocs.com>
If the period took up as much space as another character, that would
be true, but with mail readers that perform kerning as though they
were trying to prepare text for publication, the period gets
short-schrift, so to speak, and often is nearly invisible.
I think this is mostly the by-product of GUI based mail readers and
operating systems. I still use console/text based mail readers like pine
and elm since they make text much easier to read when compared to the
latest GUI mail readers.
-Toth
From:
Hans Franke [mailto:Hans.Franke@mch20.sbs.de]
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. There's even a very old 'text beautifier' for DOS which
inserted these (for my eyes) stupid spaces. Well, I guess CC is not
only the hardware :=)
I think that it's supposed to help the eye differentiate between space
between words and space between sentences.