On Wed, Nov 12, 2014, Carsten Kunze wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> by default Heirloom troff inserts a double word space if a line
> ends with ":".  Is this correct US English typography?

For typeset copy with proportionally-spaced fonts, no.  For
monospaced fonts (terminal), yes, but only if sentences are
separated by two wordspaces as well.

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Peter Schaffter
http://www.schaffter.ca

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