[COFF] [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature

[cym224 at gmail.com (Nemo Nusquam)]

On 11/06/20 11:22, Clem Cole wrote:
> Exactly -- just re-read Will's question.  2 spaces after punctuation 
> is a fix-size typeface solution to the 1.5 typographer layout.
Is it not an m-space after a full-stop?  (Though Brinhurst eschewed this 
in the fourth edition.)

> I was referring to why typed papers were traditionally double spaced 
> between the lines.
I was advised to this with drafts for copy-editing but legal documents 
are always double-spaced lines (and I know not why).

N.

> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 11:02 AM Chris Torek <torek at elf.torek.net 
> <mailto:torek at elf.torek.net>> wrote:
>
>     >I use single spaces between sentences, but my ancestors
>     >used 2... who knows why? :).
>
>     Typewriters.
>
>     In typesetting, especially when doing right-margin justification,
>     we have "stretchy spaces" between words.  The space after end-of-
>     sentence punctuation marks is supposed to be about 50% larger than
>     the width of the between-words spaces, and if the word spaces get
>     stretched, so should the end-of-sentence space.  Note that this is
>     all in the variable-pitch font world.
>
>     Since typewriters are fixed-pitch, the way to emulate the
>     1.5-space-wide gap is to expand it to 2.
>
>     Chris
>