I happen to prefer the double spacing after a full stop (period). I reckon it looks and reads better. So there. It is easy to edit singles to doubles then tidy up. An argument usually stops when you wave the Style Guide around. I do it when it suits me (Oops, maybe I shouldn't have said that) I lost absolute faith in the Chicago when it states that you must put a period after an elipsis .... (I am not making this up) -------------------- I am seem to remember that the CR/LF issue dates to mainframe printers. You could set a CR (Carriage Return) that returned to the beginning of the line - why I have no idea. A LF (Line Feed) moved to the next line down - and maybe not to the beginning. Imagine that you are programming a plotter, rather than typing a letter. A combined CR/LF is what you get with a typewriter lever, and that has now moved into word processing. Bob T (Snr) On 1/20/08, rh <zut@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Paragraph - A string of characters ending with the ascii characters > "period > >'carriage > >> return' linefeed". > >> > > > >Er, I'd question this. UNIX convention for text is newline character. > The > >CR/LF ending is a Windows variation that continues to cause compatibility > >problems. > > Yes, absolutely correct, Peter. My apologies to the list for this > inaccuracy. I was quoting from my local configuration, changed from the > normal to avoid the very compatibility problems of which you speak. > > Reg > ************************************************** > To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to > austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to > austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. > > To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. > > To search the austechwriter archives, go to > www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter > > To contact the list administrator, send a message to > austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ************************************************** >