Hi Werner,
It really depends. IIRC, the Chicaco manual of style recommended this.
"The view at CMOS is that there is no reason for two spaces after a
period in published work."
<http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/OneSpaceorTwo/
OneSpaceorTwo03.html>
Also see page 28 of Robert Bringhurst's "The Elements of
Typographical Style" (*the* authoritative reference):
"As a general rule, no more than a single space is required after a
period, a colon or any other mark of punctuation."
In other words, it doesn't depend: no serious style manual or guide
recommends more than one space after a period (with rare exceptions
like setting romanized Sanskrit, phonetics, etc.).
1) Editors like Emacs benefit from having two spaces after a full
stop so they can recognize the end of a sentence properly -- in
contrast to an abbreviation which is followed by a single space
only.
2) The `info' program needs two spaces a full stop for similar
reasons.
Note that documentation in either HTML or PDF format created with
texinfo doesn't show those two spaces. It's just a means to better
organize the source code and not related to the output.
I would imagine HTML would "do the right thing" (since the spaces
are, I assume, not coded as in the source).
However, the PDF (e.g., the NR) *appears* to preserve double-space
sentence separations — where (e.g., some specification/documentation)
can I confirm that the process which generates the PDF version of the
docs turns double-spaced source into single-space output?
Cheers,
Kieren.
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