From: Doug Ewell (dewell@roadrunner.com)
Date: Thu May 22 2008 - 19:44:19 CDT
Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote:
> When I learned typing in junior high school I remember they told us
> that the two spaces where to help typesetters navigate a document from
> typescript and know where sentence ends were.
>
> I'm not that old, either.
I'm the same age as Michael, give or take a few weeks, and since I never
took a formal typing class, I have no idea where I learned to type two
spaces between sentences. But it's how I type, and I don't plan to give
it up any time soon.
-- Doug Ewell * Arvada, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ
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