[Ham-Mac] Space after a Period

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At 10:29 AM -0700 5/3/06, Lew Phelps K6LMP wrote:
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>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.

When for your livelihood you push as many sentences around as AP, 
it's one of many ways to save time and space in the network, on the 
storage media, and as some of you remember, on the "wire".










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