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(Robert Keeble) - Mardi 25 Janvier 2000		 Navigation par date [ Précédent    Index    Suivant ]
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Subject:    RE: Espace double
Date:    Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:05:59 -0700
From:    Robert Keeble <RKeeble@xxxxxxxxx>
I think the writer in question learned on a typewriter, when the doubled
space was more the norm, at least in this part of the world. I recall this
being required practice in 8th grade typing class. Omitting the second space
was punishable by retyping the entire document...But hasn't this been
considered old practice for years?

Rob Keeble,
U.S.-Anglophone



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe Jallon [mailto:panafmed@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 8:37 AM
> To: TYPOGRAPHIE Distribution List
> Subject: Espace double
> 
> 
> Bonjour,
> 
> Voici la réaction d'un anglophone à l'occasion d'un message que 
> j'avais posté sur une liste de diffusion consacrée au logiciel Eudora 
> :
> 
> ========
> At 12:42 am +0100 25/1/00, Philippe Jallon wrote:
> 
> >So, as far as I can read I noticed the way you end/begin sentences: 
> >how come you need two blank spaces in a row before you begin a new 
> >sentence?
> 
> The only other person who has ever complained of this was also a 
> Frenchman.  So far as I know it is international practice to follow a 
> full stop (period, point) with two spaces.  I have just had a look at 
> a spread of messages from literate people and find they also use two 
> spaces, with the exception of Frenchmen, Germans and Italians.
> 
> Steve Dorner, the author of Eudora, is also most insistent that this 
> is correct practice and the Eudora html engine specifically uses two 
> &nbsp; to enforce this, so perhaps you should write to your Ministry 
> of Education or the Académie Française and discover what official 
> French practice is.  The next step, of course, is the Eudoropean 
> Court and you will have to accept not only our mad cows but also our 
> mad punctuation :-)
> 
> JD
> 
> PS. If you read any RFC you will find two spaces after a full stop. 
> RFCs are very carefully produced and checked with regard to 
> punctuation before publishing.
> =========
> 
> Qu'en pensez-vous ?
> 
> -- 
> Philippe Jallon
> AfricaMediaNews
> http://www.panos.sn/f/bulletins/actus/index.html
>