From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line adjustment at the end of a sentence Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:35:25 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87pq59gihf.fsf@lapcat.tftorrey.com> C054BAF167C9801100D1AB0B20656@UUSLMMBX003.net.pppppppppppp NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1348692021 20400 80.91.229.3 (26 Sep 2012 20:40:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:40:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 26 22:40:27 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TGyP4-0004m8-Ss for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:40:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46896 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGyOz-0000MB-3x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:40:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="78fb7125a45724f15e21604c94a7d968"; logging-data="15155"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+vpqL9hw1D7Vp90DEVnJnl" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wsu+303JH2Rsdum22qMddfDt9No= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:194596 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86932 Archived-At: In article , "Drew Adams" wrote: > > The number of spaces between English sentences has been > > gradually switching from two to one. > > Dunno about that. Mostly I think people just use plain text less and > formatted > text more nowadays. Right. The old convention was for typewriters with fixed-width fonts, and Emacs was designed for the same type of text processing. I don't think it was ever applied to typeset text, and most people now use word processors that generate comparable output. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***