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Subject:Re: One space (or two) after a paragraph? From:"Bernd.Hutschenreuther" <Hutschi -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> Date:Sat, 22 Aug 2015 10:16:29 +0200
I do not do this, but there may be a reason. This is when you are searching and use search procedures, for example you are searching for a period at the end of a sentence.
A period may also be in numbers (without spaces).
If you have a space after each period in a sentence it is easier to exclude numbers from search.
This is just an example.
I found a similar discussion on wether to set one or two spaces after a sentence. A friend gave me the hint that this also improves searches and automatic process flows.
Best regards from Dresden/Germany
Bernd Hutschenreuther
Von meinem iPad gesendet
> Am 22.08.2015 um 10:05 schrieb Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>:
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> It would never occur to me to do this, and I can't really think of a reason why I'd want to.
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> Gene Kim-Eng
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>> On 8/21/2015 7:08 PM, Steven Jong wrote:
>> In working on source files created by others, I sometimes come across examples where the other writer has ended all paragraphs with a space character. When it happens, it's clearly deliberate: One space at the end of each paragraph and list item. I've seen it in files created in Word, Frame, XMetaL, you name it, so it's the writer, not the tool.
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