As someone who does most of my work in monospaced fonts, the double space at the end of the sentence is essential. Without it you get the "wall of text" with no obvious breaks. What word processors do is of course down to the whims of the (perpetrator) programmer!
On 15/02/18 18:04, Hugh S. Myers wrote: > If memory serves (touch typist since 1963) it was assumed to be > universal. I had a good deal of correspondence with folks across the > pond and never thought twice about the double space post-sentence. I > think with the advent of first the IBM Selectric and much later the > Apple/Postscript combination, somewhere in there it sort of went away! > > Love the new package BTW! Tre retro :) > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:42 AM, <msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca > <mailto:msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca>> wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Urs Liska wrote: > > > that may not be standard for proportional typesetting (even LaTeX's > > > standard 1.33 factor is no longer popular) but the double-width > sentence > > > space was universal in typewritten texts when typewriters were common. > > > > > > > Are you sure this is not related to language and culture? I can't recall > > It may be. I was talking about English-language typewritten texts. > > -- > Matthew Skala > msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca <mailto:msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca> > People before principles. > http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org <mailto:lilypond-user@gnu.org> > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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