Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Linguistic Violations - (nf) Message-ID: <466@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jul-83 00:40:21 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddie.466 Posted: Tue Jul 19 00:40:21 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Jul-83 10:51:39 EDT References: <461@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 15 I asked a friend who works in the computer typesetting industry whether typesetters add extra space at the end of a sentence. He said that they don't, but that the period character generally has extra whitespace on the right side. My guess is that this is because it is the smallest of the sentence-ending characters, so it needs some extra help, while question-mark and exclamation-point do fine with just a word-space. Personal opinion: I have a hard time reading fixed-width text if there is no extra space at the end of the sentence. It is probably just due to having used computer text-editing for so long, and having gotten used to the convention. -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar