[bug #64018] [man, mdoc] decide on a common base paragraph indentation

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #26, bug #64018 (project groff):

Not really relevant to this bug, but since all the relevant matters appear to
have been addressed:

[comment #15 comment #15:]
> Dave Kemper and I (both Americans) have different views on
> how wide the space after a sentence should be,

We certainly have different views on what should be the default sentence
spacing in groff (join the argument in bug #58500!), but I bet we're not far
apart on what we think looks best.

But personal preferences aside, the American typesetting convention started
moving toward using the same size of space between words and sentences nearly
a century ago, and anything published by a reputable American publisher in the
past 50 years is firmly in the one-size-space-fits-all camp; both these facts
are well documented in the essay you cited:

> but we both found the following resource valuable.
> 
>
https://web.archive.org/web/20171217060354/http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324

So in typeset material, it's not really accurate to say Americans double-space
after a full stop.  In American typing classes, they used to teach this
practice, but manuscript convention is different from typographic convention. 
I've no idea what they used to teach, or teach now, in European typing
classes.  (Are typing classes even still a thing?  Don't kids these days learn
to type with their thumbs on tiny screens about age 3?)


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