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Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence |
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Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:35:25 -0400 |
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In article <mailman.9790.1348681903.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> > The number of spaces between English sentences has been
> > gradually switching from two to one.
>
> Dunno about that. Mostly I think people just use plain text less and
> formatted
> text more nowadays.
Right. The old convention was for typewriters with fixed-width fonts,
and Emacs was designed for the same type of text processing.
I don't think it was ever applied to typeset text, and most people now
use word processors that generate comparable output.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, (continued)
- RE: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Drew Adams, 2012/09/26
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- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Stefan Monnier, 2012/09/26
- RE: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Drew Adams, 2012/09/27
- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Stefan Monnier, 2012/09/27
- RE: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Drew Adams, 2012/09/27
- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Stefan Monnier, 2012/09/27
- RE: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Drew Adams, 2012/09/27
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- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Stefan Monnier, 2012/09/27
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- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence,
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- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Eric Abrahamsen, 2012/09/26
- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Sivaram Neelakantan, 2012/09/29
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- Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence, Stefan Monnier, 2012/09/29