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Re: End-of-sentence spacing


From: M Douglas McIlroy
Subject: Re: End-of-sentence spacing
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 22:22:47 -0500

  > According to the info(1) manual, initially both the WORD_SPACE_SIZE and
  > SENTENCE_SPACE_SIZE are 12; since this prevents SS from being larger
  > than WS, it effectively disables sentence spacing

A careful reading reveals that the second argument of .ss is *extra*
spacing, so
the default is two spaces. It has a glaring effect in  proportionally
spaced text.

Doug


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