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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Linguistic Violations - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 19-Jul-83 00:40:21 EDT
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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.
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			Barry Margolin
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