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From: fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard)
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Subject: Re: Typesetting formats...
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Date: 5 Feb 90 22:23:43 GMT
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In article <38336@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:

>The quick and dirty rule of thumb would be to use two spaces with a
>monospace font and one spave with a proportional (typeset) font (assuming a
>laser printer or better -- for dot-matrix, you probably want to use two
>spaces all the time).

Why only one space with a proportional font?  In the fonts I use, a space
is among the very narrowest characters, so that only one space gives
almost no separation between sentences, while monospaced fonts have
bigger space characters, giving more separation.

rich


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