JN> On (18 Mar 97) Matthew Montchalin wrote to Lutz Winkler...
JN> -> MM> Oh, and not to mention the general requirement that a period be
JN> -> MM> followed by two spaces, not one.
JN> -> There is no such requirement though two spaces were often used by
JN> -> typists in the days of mono-spaced fonts. You won't find two spaces
JN> -> in books and other publications printed with proportional fonts.
JN>  MM> How far back are you checking your standards?  For 200 years, a 
period
JN>  MM> has required two spaces.
JN> Matthew, In days of old before proportional fonts, two spaces were
JN> necessary to distinguish the end of a sentence. With the advent of
JN> proportional fonts modern typesetting went to one space. There is
JN> a wonderful book titled the PC Is Not a Typewriter which covers
JN> this and other subtleties.
The genius [sic!] who wrote that work was ignorant of this
well-known fact
        More white space makes text easier to read.
Try it yourself.
Use your editor to smoosh up several pages into a single 'graph.
Two spaces between each sentence gives the reader more "hooks"
and "rest stops".
PS: Proportional spacing was *NOT* invented in the PC age.
For example, there was the IBM "Executive" typewriter.
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