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Re: Spaces after commas
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Greg A. Woods |
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Re: Spaces after commas |
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Mon, 14 Sep 1998 19:56:51 +0400 (MSD) |
[ On Mon, September 14, 1998 at 13:35:18 (+0000), David Miller x4963 wrote: ]
> Subject: Spaces after commas
>
> How many spaces should there be after a comma? Are there any rules
> regarding spaces after punctuation marks? What are they?
In Canada typists have usually been taught to put two spaces after
punctuation that ends a sentence, and often after a colon that precedes
a list.
I don't know if there are rules about typestting or not (though I
presume there are). My guess is that it looks better in typesetting to
have a slightly wider gap between sentences too, perhaps an EM space
instead of an EN space (to use the troff terms).
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