From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 12:12:25 EDT
At 11:49 -0400 2003-07-07, John Cowan wrote:
>It's a typewriter-based convention, and is suitable for monowidth fonts only.
It's a beastly practice held over from the time when it was useful
(that is, when typesetters set the type from the typescript), and I
wouldn't use it in monowidth typesetting either.
I am rereading the Lord of the Rings, and have noticed that my copy,
which I have had since I was 14, was typeset with double spacing
between the sentences. I am considering buying a new copy, much as I
love my old ones....
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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