Re: End-of-sentence spacing, for our German readers

[Dorai Sitaram]

 I'm used to single-spacing by now, given its ubiquity, but surely the Germans 
carry their disdain for typographic breathing space a little too far? As in the 
posted article, paragraphs are difficult to visually separate, lacking as they 
do both leading horizontal indentation and vertical separation. (The one 
fragile clue that a paragraph has ended is that its last line MAY not reach all 
the way to the right margin. But every now and then it will by the laws of 
probability, and the reader is sunk.)

Add to this the longcompoundwordswithouthyphens, and the whole thing is only an 
epsilon away from scriptio continua. No wonder Th. Mann said the hell with it 
and wrote chapter-sized paragraphs.

--d
     On Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 10:51:06 PM EST, Ulrich Lauther 
<ulrich.lauther@t-online.de> wrote:  
 
 On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 01:16:54PM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2020, Ulrich Lauther wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 10:27:01AM +0000, Dorai Sitaram wrote:
> > > groff pretty much forces one to use two spaces after
> > > sentence-ending punctuation, unless it's at the end of a source
> > > line.
> > 
> > In my opinion it is good style to start every sentence on a new
> > source line.
>