>>Actually, the concept of two spaces after a period is history. That was used in the old days of the typewriter with mono-spaced fonts, but with today's fonts and computers, you should no longer do it.
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>Some... 17 years ago ("now you're dating yourself" - "well if nobody else will" ... remember that? :) I was doing DTP, and a weekly magazine at that, no less. We have bought a special Ventura-capable editor (i.e. it knew how to tag, but was still text-based) and taught the reporters to use it. Then I had some script written in the then mFoxPlus which would go through their texts, and make sure each comma is followed by a space, that there are no spaces between the parentheses and the first/last words in them, no double spaces, no spaces between a word and the punctuation after it etc etc - so we wouldn't get any dangling punctuation hanging in the next line.
In a conversation with Rick Strahl I once joked that I used to use FoxBase to output tagged documents for Ventura. Now I use Foxpro to output tagged HTML documents for the web. ;-)
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