I've heard something to this effect before. The only problem I see with using single spaces is with emacs and some of its typing modes. I bbelieve two spaces are necessary for emacs to interpret the block of text as a sentence. I could be wrong here but that alone would keep me using two spaces while using emacs especially. On 4/9/13, Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote: > Interesting, thanks Jim. I learned to type in elementary school in the > early to mid 90's. I do remember > being taught to start a new paragraph with five > spaces when typing instead of two like in braille. That's all I recall > from my typing lessons as far as multiple spaces go. > > Greg > > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 08:17:38PM -0400, Jim Kutsch, KY2D wrote: >> Warning: this is way more than you really wanted to know. >> >> , I just researched this point at the end of last year. It turns out that >> it's a question of when you learned to type. This is another of those >> standards that have changed over time. >> >> Putting two spaces after a period was the standard until a few years ago. >> It >> was taught in typing classes in high school and at secretarial schools >> and >> was documented in the "style books" for many newspapers and large >> companies. >> In the days of "continuous width" fonts (like typewriters), it was the >> standard. More recently, with proportional spacing in type fonts and >> laser >> and other printers that can deal with proportional width fonts, the >> standard >> has evolved to the use of only one space after a period today. However, >> the >> use of two is still accepted as an alternative, although not preferred in >> the style books. >> >> So, in January, I decided to teach myself to switch to only one space >> after >> periods. It was one of my new year's resolutions. Considering I took a >> formal typing class in 1966 and have used a keyboard extensively ever >> since, >> teaching myself to change was quite a chore but by the end of January, I >> managed to drop those pesky unnecessary spaces. Just think of all the >> virtual trees that are being saved. >> >> Finally, for those who want references, here's the best one I found both >> because it's a great, humorous article, and because it has links to many >> other references on the question: >> http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/The_rule_stands_One_space_after_a_perio >> d_Period_9587.aspx >> >> Cheers, >> Jim >> > > > -- > web site: http://www.gregn.net > gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
