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If you will closely examine textbooks and other typographically printed
material, you will see that these do not follow the typewriter
convention of "two spaces after a period." For those of us who use page
layout software such as PageMaker, Quark, Frame, etc., we should not use
two spaces following a period, because their algorithms automatically
produce the correct spacing (letter, word and intra-sentence) for the
line of type. When two spaces are introduced, it throws these off, and
to the trained eye, the result is less than acceptable. If you are still
using a typewriter, then the sitution is different and you should follow
that convention.
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Charles Cantrell
chc -at- ontario -dot- com
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