Re: One or two spaces after a full stop?

["Mark L. Levinson" <mark -at- MEMCO -dot- CO -dot- IL>]

Jenna wrote:
two spaces after a full stop is no longer necessary.  Most publishers
still use it, but it is more because it's hard to change than because it
needs to be that way.

    ** I think most publishers don't use it, because it's hard to
       use.  There's no way for any computer program to automatically
       discern end-of-sentence, so the ideology has been changed to
       suit the computers.  Single-spacing doesn't bother the
       graphic designers, either, because they consider text to
       be a necessary evil and best kept glintless to avoid
       distracting from the glory of the page design.

       Readers, on the other hand, like a sense of where the end of
       a sentence is.  And the extra space helps.

       (No, it doesn't produce rivers.  Not unless your justification
       is too primitive or your column is too narrow.)

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