[Ham-Mac] Space after a Period

[Lew Phelps K6LMP]

Standard HTML is designed to "ignore" extra spaces. If you want two  
spaces after a period, you need to add the "hard space," as you  
describe.

However, modern usage is NOT to use the extra spaces.  As a former  
journalist and public relations professional, I draw guidance (as do  
all of my professional peers) from the Associated Press Style Book,  
which specifies one space after the period at the end of a sentence.

Lew K6LMP



On May 3, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Dick Kriss wrote:

> I just noticed the text editor in this MS Entourage mail program  
> does not
> add extra space after a period at the end of a sentence.  I have to  
> remember
> the old High School typing class rule to manually enter two spaces  
> after a
> period.  I wonder what happened to the old typing rule?
>
> I was under the impression that modern word processors and text  
> editors all
> added some extra space after a period.
>
> The reason for bring it up is I noticed the extra spaces I added in  
> my web
> page html do not show up unless I manually add the    (IIRC  
> "nbsp" =
> "non-breaking space") after a period.  I am pretty sure html  
> ignores all
> extra spaces. I use a text editor called TexEdit Plus for all web  
> page html
> formatting.
>
> Life was easy back in 1986 when we only had to deal with Mac Write  
> and it
> would always add an extra half space after a period.
>
> Dick AA5VU
>
>
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