Re: Open Issues from Recent Comments

[Martin Schröder <martin%oneiros.de@localhost>]

On 2005-01-11 15:51:50 -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> There's nothing wrong with that, surely?  The space after the
> punctuation ending a sentence normally *should* be wider than an
> inter-word space, and in a monospaced font a double space is, I
> thought, the canonical way to do it.  (The spacing ratio in
> well-typeset text is reasonably close to 2:1....)

That depends on your local context (e.g. in the USA the
inter-sentence space is larger while in europe it's mostly the
same; in TeX it's \nonfrenchspacing vs. \frenchspacing).

Best regards
    Martin
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