[Dragaera] Typesetting punctuation - 2 spaces or one? (was: Re: A Paarfict Storm)

[Geri Sullivan]

At 2:59 PM -0600 1/20/08, Diana wrote:
>
>I did a bit of poking around, and naturally, wikipedia has an entirely
>too long article on this; apparently, there exists a raging debate
>that makes the serial comma debacle look sane and civilized:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_spacing
>
>But in short: some people think it looks icky.

Sweet reference, Diana!

It can be hard to tell with justified text, but the part I find odd 
is that none of the spaces in the books I said used a single space 
had anywhere near as wide as space as the em-space that was the 
standard during those years. Curious.

Geri
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