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> Does it mean only pressing the spacebar once? No, because that won't make a difference in many systems like TeX, HTML. Seeing as the original article always
by rmk2 13y ago
> Does it mean only pressing the spacebar once? No, because that won't make a difference in many systems like TeX, HTML.
Seeing as the original article always tells you how to do things in Word, it means exactly that. Any system that is not not WYSIWYG will have no problems here, Word does. And since most people use Word, this is relevant. It doesn't matter that TeX doesn't take it into account, because this is not primarily written for TeX users. TeX does many of these things, but it is not what most people use, especially those who do not know anything at all about typography.
- chalst 13y agoThe book is intended to be general; from the introduction: The typographic rules in this book aren’t specific to particular software. You can apply these rules in just about any modern page-layout program or word processor. To emphasise what I said above: the book is passing off a didactic point about authoring (yes, many newspapers and publishers want their journalists and authors to follow the one-space rule in their copy) into a simplistic rule of typography, one which happens to be meaningless in many contexts and is based on fallacious reasoning.