Re: Space after Periods

Guido van Rossum <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>

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Subject: Re: Space after Periods 
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Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1993 10:54:12 +0200
From: Guido van Rossum <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>
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> Actually, I think most books don't do this any more. Newspapers certainly
> don't. It's way too much trouble escaping out all the abbreviations. It
> doesn't really add anything to readability.

FrameMaker doesn't have support for extra space after a sentence
either, and I must say I don't miss it.  I think it's mostly
propaganda by Knuth and Kernighan (TeX and troff) that makes people
want this.

Let's keep HTML simple!

--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>