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Certainly true that more horizontal spacing between sentences is good for readability. Certainly false that hitting the spacebar twice, like a caveman, is the w
by smallduck 8y ago
Certainly true that more horizontal spacing between sentences is good for readability. Certainly false that hitting the spacebar twice, like a caveman, is the way to achieve this.
- grkvlt 8y agoExactly. A good typesetting system will leave more inter-sentence space than inter-word spacing, but this has nothing to do with the number of ASCII 0x20 symbols after the full stop (period) at the end of the sentence.
- bhaak 8y agoBut what typesetting system has a way of marking up sentence endings? Because you can rely on the period being that as e.g. this sentence has one in the middle of the sentence.
- nokcha 8y agoLaTeX does. The general rule it uses is that a period followed by a space marks the end of a sentence. To mark an intra-sentence period, a backslash is used between the period and the space.