4 Jan
2002
4 Jan
'02
6:51 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
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 beautyfier' for DOS which
inserted this (for my eyes) stupid spaces. Well, I guess CC is no
only the hardwarae :=)
I think that it's supposed to help the eye differentiate between space between words
and space between sentences.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
4 Jan
4 Jan
7:45 a.m.
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. The practice of inserting two spaces was
inherited from the requirement for it in the printing/publishing industry.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Smith" <csmith(a)amdocs.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:51 AM
Subject: RE: Language and English
between
words and space between sentences.
-----Original
Message-----
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
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
2:35 p.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.
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