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Subject:RE: Spaces after full stop From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:22:00 -0400
I'm not sure how you're meaning "modernist" in this instance, Bill, but when
trying to discern the appropriate standards for current use, I normally look
at the professionals who are currently making a choice in the matter. Two
spaces after a period in books went out of use in the 1920s or so in the
United States.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Swallow [mailto:techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com]
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 5:10 PM
> To: Bonnie Granat
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Spaces after full stop
>
> Welcome to the modernist side of the fence, Bonnie.
>
> On 10/8/07, Bonnie Granat <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> wrote:
> > I have to disagree, Bill. All one needs to do is open a
> book and look at a
> > paragraph containing multiple sentences.
>
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