Well... I'm betting this definitely falls into the realm of off-topic
for this list BUT I remember that grade 9 typing was the only course I
ever failed in high-school (skipped a lot of classes due to end of day
varsity sports and general indifference) AND yet was probably one of the
most useful highschool courses I took when I got to university. I was
ALWAYS taught that in our mono spaced courier font typewriters we always
had two spaces after a full stop.
Then later in life I was told that in electronic presentation (web,
documents viewed electronically etc.) it was one space after a full stop
and two spaces was reserved for physically printed media. (I agree that
having two version of a document (one for print and one for reading
electronically seems silly)).
I still put two spaces in all instances because it seemed like an
inexpensive way to be a rebel in this world. :)
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>Ben Kennedy wrote on Wed, 5 Nov 2003 21:55:23 -0500:
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>>Back in the days of manual typewriters and mono-spaced fonts, perhaps.
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>Even then you had only one space after a full stop. Not two, not none. At
>least in Germany.
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>Kai
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