[COFF] [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

[Coff, etc]

On Saturday,  7 November 2020 at  0:29:01 +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote in
>  <20201106225422.GD99027 at eureka.lemis.com>:
>> On Friday,  6 November 2020 at  7:46:57 -0800, Chris Torek wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> FWIW, this is the US convention.  Other countries have different
>> conventions.  My Ausinfo style manual states
>>
>>  There is no need to increase the amount of punctuation ... at the
>>  end of a sentence.
>>
>> I believe that this also holds for Germany.  I'm not sure that the UK
>> didn't have different rules again.
>

> Yes, the DUDEN of Germany says for typewriters that the punctuation
> characters period, comma, semicolon, colon, question- and
> exclamation mark are added without separating whitespace.  The next
> word follows after a space ("Leerschritt", "void step").

Thanks for the confirmation.  Where did you find that?  I checked the
yellow Duden („Richtlinien für den Schriftsatz“) before sending my
previous message, but I couldn't find anything useful.

Greg
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