[COFF] [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
Nemo Nusquam
cym224 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 7 12:52:57 AEST 2020
On 11/06/20 11:22, Clem Cole wrote:
> Exactly -- just re-read Will's question. 2 spaces after punctuation
> is a fix-size typeface solution to the 1.5 typographer layout.
Is it not an m-space after a full-stop? (Though Brinhurst eschewed this
in the fourth edition.)
> I was referring to why typed papers were traditionally double spaced
> between the lines.
I was advised to this with drafts for copy-editing but legal documents
are always double-spaced lines (and I know not why).
N.
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 11:02 AM Chris Torek <torek at elf.torek.net
> <mailto:torek at elf.torek.net>> wrote:
>
> >I use single spaces between sentences, but my ancestors
> >used 2... who knows why? :).
>
> Typewriters.
>
> In typesetting, especially when doing right-margin justification,
> we have "stretchy spaces" between words. The space after end-of-
> sentence punctuation marks is supposed to be about 50% larger than
> the width of the between-words spaces, and if the word spaces get
> stretched, so should the end-of-sentence space. Note that this is
> all in the variable-pitch font world.
>
> Since typewriters are fixed-pitch, the way to emulate the
> 1.5-space-wide gap is to expand it to 2.
>
> Chris
>
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