Re: End-of-sentence spacing

[Damian McGuckin]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, Karthik Suresh wrote:

>    First, when you do the purely mechanical operations of typing, type 
> so subsequent editing will be easy. Start each sentence on a new line. 
> Make lines short, and break lines at natural places, such as after 
> commas and semicolons, rather than randomly. Since most people change 
> documents by rewriting phrases and adding, deleting and rearranging 
> sentences, these precautions simplify any editing you have to do later.

In the 70s, this was the standard advice in the large organization where I 
worked when we moved to DWB for all technical documents, mainly within the 
engineering school. It has worked for me (and other technically focused 
organizations where I have worked since).

That said, we were not writing fiction, well most of us, and I am sure 
that it may not work for everybody.  Some of my own unsophisticated text 
processing tools rely on the fact that a full stop at the end of a line 
(with a few exceptions) so I would find it hard to change now after 40
years.

Regards - Damian

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