Re: Formatting text and using the convention of putting 2 spaces after a period

On 06.08.18 11:40, David Woodfall wrote:
> ... vim will change some of the spaces after a period into two spaces...

On Monday, August 6, 2018 at 11:08:12 PM UTC+12, Erik Christiansen replied:
> AFAICT it's an Americanism, judging by occurrence. It defeats simplistic
> automated removal of erroneous double spaces between words.

My understanding is that in print typesetting, more space was often used after a sentence than between words (though it could get complicated, depending on the font, the space needed for justification, and the first letter of the following sentence). With typewriters, to mimic this, the practice of two spaces was adopted. So, for text to be rendered properly in a variable width font one space is best, but with a monospace font, aka a typewriter font, such as vim uses, some of us cling to two spaces.

Regards, John Little

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