Re: thread cancellation, take 2

[Neil Jerram]

"Julian Graham" <address@hidden> writes:

> Re: @var, @code, of course, my mistake.
>
> As for the spaces thing, both my parents are copy editors and I was
> raised to use the double space.  But my girlfriend is also a copy
> editor (for newer, fancier magazines) and she assures me that the
> double space is a thing of the past.

But that could mean many things.  For example, TeX doesn't care how
many spaces you type in the source file; it will typeset the correct
end-of-sentence-size space anyway.

My understanding is that the two space convention is for fixed-width
computer presentation, such as in Info.  Many people seem to think
that two spaces look better in that context.

(Personally I always notice how browser-rendered text looks wrong in
this respect - because HTML (like TeX) doesn't care how many spaces
there are in the source, but the browsers (unlike TeX) don't leave a
little extra width at the end of a sentence.)

Regards,
      Neil