atw: Re: Old habits... 'scuse me

Peter Martin:
You should know that someone using your name wrote:
> 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.
>

I'm afraid I appear to have written the second paragraph above under the 
influence of brain fever.    It must be Friday.

Let me put that another way:

The justified text example appears in my browser with filling between words in 
excess of two normal spaces.
(Other browsers may be different.)   If that is possible or likely, it suggests 
a greater problem lies with justification than with spaces inserted at the end 
of a sentence.



-Peter M
 peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 
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