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Subject:Sentence spaces study From:LaVonna Funkhouser <lffunkhouser -at- HALNET -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 9 May 1994 17:36:17 -0500
Has anyone a lead on the readability study on sentence
spacing that is mentioned below?
LaVonna
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> From: nymanr%trg -dot- trglink -dot- com -at- internet (Rikki Nyman)
> Subject: Re: Double spaces
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> LaVonna:
> I put this out on the Internet which is why I have been inundating you with
> miscellaneous snatches of opinion. This refers to research on readability....
> Rikki
> >I know the correct typographical answer to double spaces is NO. However, I
> >seem to remember research (done at Dartmouth?) that said that readability
> >was increased if spacing was increased between sentences in typeset
> >material.
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