From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25110 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Edward J. Sabol" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: highlighting and fontification Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:13:31 -0400 (EDT) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <199909152213.SAA72350@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162556 12345 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:09:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:09:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA07930 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:18:19 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB21812; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:14:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:15:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA23879 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:15:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov (alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.16.213]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA07790 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:14:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from sabol@localhost) by alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov (980427.SGI.8.8.8/980728.SGI.AUTOCF) id SAA72350; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:13:31 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-reply-to: (message from Mick Gower on 13 Sep 1999 22:46:36 +0100) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25110 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25110 Excerpts from mail: (13-Sep-99) Re: highlighting and fontification by Mick Gower >>> A couple of others that I can think of: American typography >>> (typographical convention) puts two spaces after the punctuation that >>> ends a sentence, European typography tends to use only one[1]. > >> Jan Tschichold recommends putting an extra space after a such a >> punctuation (except for very dense lines, of course). So this isn't a >> purely American convention. > > The British Military had a manual for typography and that, IIRC, is two > spaces after the and of a sentence ie after full stop, question mark > and exclamation mark and one space after a break in a sentence ie after > a comma or semi-colon. I think the manual was known as the JSP101. For what it's worth, it's not cut and dry here in the U.S. either, despite what the Rat says. According to MLA (Modern Language Association) guidelines (the standard most universities follow), either one or two spaces are permissible following end-of-sentence punctuation when typing a paper. Neither one nor two is stated as the preferred choice. However, other guidelines, such as the APA (American Psychological Association) style, require only a single space after end-of-sentence punctuation. Personally, I believe that having two spaces at the end of a sentence is an antiquated convention born in an era of typewriters and fixed-width fonts. With the advent of computers and proportional spacing, the two-space convention is virtually useless and people are moving away from it. Professional typesetting for books, etc. has never followed it to begin with. Pick up any book, and you won't find the spacing between sentences to be any larger than the spacing between words. The above information concerning the MLA and APA styles was obtained from _A Writer's Reference_, 4th Edition, by Diane Hacker.