7 Nov
2020
7 Nov
'20
4:54 a.m.
On Friday, 6 November 2020 at 7:46:57 -0800, Chris Torek wrote:
FWIW, this is the US convention. Other countries have different
conventions. My Ausinfo style manual states
There is no need to increase the amount of punctuation ... at the
end of a sentence.
I believe that this also holds for Germany. I'm not sure that the UK
didn't have different rules again.
Greg
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I use single
spaces between sentences, but my ancestors
used 2... who knows why? :).
Typewriters.
In typesetting, especially when doing right-margin justification,
we have "stretchy spaces" between words. The space after end-of-
sentence punctuation marks is supposed to be about 50% larger than
the width of the between-words spaces, and if the word spaces get
stretched, so should the end-of-sentence space.