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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