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Subject:Re: space/space From:burgamw1 <burgamw1 -at- TEOMAIL -dot- JHUAPL -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 6 May 1994 16:37:05 EST
By convention, typeset documents, which use proportional fonts, use only one
space between sentences whereas typewritten material, which uses a monospaced
font, uses two spaces. I don't know why. If you're using a proportional font
and you want your documents to look more like professionally typeset documents
(i.e., in the "old days" set by a printer), use only one space between
sentences.
Murrie Burgan, JHU/APL
burgamw1 -at- teomail -dot- jhuapl -dot- edu
