[Dragaera] A Paarfict Storm
David Dyer-Bennet
dd-b at dd-b.net
Sun Jan 20 08:57:08 PST 2008
Howard Brazee wrote:
> Diana wrote:
>
>> A very minor note, again regarding spacing: double spaces after
>> periods (or other forms of punctuation) are unnecessary unless one is
>> using a typewriter font (which I sincerely hope the final product will
>> not be).
>>
>>
> A quick check shows no big gap between sentences in the books in
> question. It seems to me that at one time type set books often had an
> extra half space gap, but that was when type was set by hand.
>
And posts to this list, particularly of text in development, might well
be regarded as manuscripts, which in modern practice still *do* call for
double spacing after sentences.
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