atw: Re: Old habits

David Petersen:
You should know that someone using your name wrote:
> I came across this via the MVPS site, at:
> http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/concepts/rules_onespace/index.html
>
> The principle seems to be - use one space between sentences when using 
> proportional
> fonts.
>

Hmm.  It starts off sounding relevant, and then, for me, fades into 
irrelevance.  Now, I'm one for simple language, but an assertion that two 
spaces at the end of a sentence in proportional font makes the text "look too 
chopped up"  seems a bit short on precision, and doesn't match with my 
experience in looking at proportional font text.  (And/or  my idea of what 
"chopped up" is supposed to be.)

And then the example of justified text (as displayed in my browser), already 
acquires some filler spacing results in inter-word spacing +within+ the 
sentences in excess of that which would be the case with two spaces in 
non-justified text.  So the alleged "problem" here does seem to have more to do 
with justification within each line than with inter-sentence space usage.


-Peter M
 peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 
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