4 Jan
2002
4 Jan
'02
11:06 a.m.
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Richard Erlacher 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.
I've been told that the only reason they originally taught us to use two
spaces between sentences was because a typewriter's punctuation characters
are not the same width as regular letters. This isn't true with computers,
so the two space rule does not apply.
It's also customary to insert a blank line between
paragraphs. That, surely, is to enhance readability.
If you want people to
read your stuff, you've got to make it easy for them.
This also makes it easier to trim someone's email when quoting for a
reply.
-Toth