atw: Re: Old habits

I'm with you, Peter.
Given that current research is increasingly showing the importance of space in readability, I wonder why anyone would NOT want to have more space between sentences than within them (in the same way that we have more vertical space between paragraphs than within them). 

What's the problem?

ros
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On 28/10/2008, at 2:05 PM, Peter Martin wrote:


Kathy Bowman:
You should know that someone using your name wrote:
A lot of the documents I have seen lately have double spaces between sentences. Are 
they making a comeback, or am I just dealing with dinosaurs?
cheers
Having hacked a few document parsers, I'd have thought that having two spaces between sentences would be more useful than not.
Is there really any sensible practical reason why there should be a rule to limit sentence spacing to one space ? Don't see that it's likely to produce any greater legibility or increase comprehension.... 

--Peter M


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