2 spaces after a period is a relic left over from the days of typewriters. Modern screen fonts no longer require the second space and, although high school typing classes teach it, it goes against typographic principles.
On Nov 6, 2006, at 7:29 AM, Max Noel wrote:
On 11/6/06, Hans-Joerg Bibiko bibiko@eva.mpg.de wrote:
IIRC Emacs considers that a sentence ends with a period followed
with
either 2 spaces, a linefeed or a formfeed character.
The tricky thing is e.g. that if you write German usually you don't type two spaces after a period to indicate that is the end of a sentence. So, by my opinion, it is very difficult to define what is a 'sentence'.
Indeed. Actually, I don't think you actually do that in any language except Emacs (and perhaps LaTeX).
-- Max
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