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echo: ms_word
to: WAYNE MATTHEWS
from: PETER CREMASCO
date: 1996-05-12 20:40:00
subject: Hanging indent

Hi Wayne,
At 05:50:34 on 08-May-96, Wayne Matthews wrote to Andreas Kunst about
Hanging indent
 AK>> You should use only ONE Space to separate one sentence from
 AK>> the other!
 WM> Perhaps that would fix the hanging indent problem described
 WM> above, but it would be stylishly incorrect. In a typed manuscript,
 WM> there should be two spaces between a period and the beginning of
 WM> the next sentence. That's the way we do it here in the New World,
 WM> anyway. :)
I used to think that too.  We're both wrong.  The two space rule
applied to typed manuscripts but the newer wordprocessors like Word
and Wordperfect, with their proportionally spaced fonts and
Intellisense (or what ever its called) only require a single space
to format correctly.
Cheers,
PeterC
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