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> One thing that doesn't get brought up... Except it was brought up in the 3rd message[0] of the linked thread. > Typists follow the rule of adding an extra s
by opello 3y ago
> One thing that doesn't get brought up...
Except it was brought up in the 3rd message[0] of the linked thread.
> Typists follow the rule of adding an extra space between
sentences within a paragraph. The rule for books (and by extension,
anything that does not use a fixed-pitch, monospaced font) is to use
the same space between sentences as between words.
[0] http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q3/0024.html http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q3/0024.ht...
- DanielKehoe 3y agoYes, I wrote that message 30 years ago. I actually had copies of both "Words into Type" and the "Chicago Manual of Style" on my desk when I wrote that message because I had worked in the publishing industry as a copy editor before getting involved in the tech industry. Some publishing houses had their own style guides or were inconsistent from book to book (like O'Reilly), but WIT and Chicago were the accepted authorities. Whether the conventions of the book industry should have guided technologies like web browsers is a matter for debate, but at the time I wanted to make the point that two spaces after a period were typists' habit and not a publishing convention. I'm amazed that this point is still debated so passionately when most people have never touched a typewriter.