On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 08:17:50PM -0600, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 11/12/14, Carsten Kunze <carsten.ku...@arcor.de> wrote: > > by default Heirloom troff inserts a double word space if a line ends with > > ":". Is this correct US English typography? > > Most modern US typography uses the same amount of space for everything > on the line: between sentences, between words, and after any > punctuation that requires a following space. (Here, "modern" refers > to the past 50 years or so; see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing#Movement_to_single_sentence_spacing) > > So the default groff behavior of adding additional space between > sentences also does not follow today's typical US typography. You > would have to specify ".ss 12 0" to achieve US convention.
It seems ease of reading or better comprehension (which are the reasons I prefer extra space after sentences, etc.) have nothing to do with "the rules." Sigh. -- Mike Bianchi
