Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:09:16 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt |
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:45:47 +0100 Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:25:05AM +0400, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote: > > > Actually, I was doubting whether the "2 spaces" thing was > > intentional or not. The overwhelming majority of the sentences in > > this document use only one space after a period, however, and this > > made me decide that the "2 spaces" thing had not been deliberate > > but just a typo. > > > > Are there any rules about using spaces after a period at the end > > of a sentence? > > See Knuth (TeXbook) for the story on that...
I googled that but I don't see the history there.
AFAIK, 2 spaces at the end of sentences is a typewriter-ism, for easier visual separation of sentences. Probably (just guessing here) has to do with monospace fonts vs. (not having) proportional ones there (usually).
--- ~Randy [Yes, I learned to type on a manual typewriter.]
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