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On 16 August 2013 11:46, Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com> wrote:

I learned to type in the US and the double spacing was taught back in the
dark ages.
Same here (dark ages = 1960s). When I became aware of the 'rule' that
double spacing at the end of a sentence was for typewriters, but not
for proportional fonts, I taught myself to change. It took some
effort, but now I do it without thinking.

Looking at a professionally typeset book, it appears (are my old eyes
deceiving me?) the space between sentences is a wee bit wider than
other spaces. If this is the case, it would be nice if word processors
would have a setting which would do this automatically.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping_of_Unicode_characters#Spaces
lists twelve (12) different Unicode spaces, one of which is called a
punctuation space.


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T. R. Valentine
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and clothes.' -- Erasmus

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