[Blindtlk] a question of spacing

[Kori King]

Interesting observations, and when I took typing I was taught the same 
thing. But now, I feel that in emails, grammar and spelling are what I focus 
on, and getting a point across is the most important thing, so now with 
paragraphs I just hit the enter key twice to leave a blank line. When I end 
a sentence, I think I usually just space once. It's funny how we relax our 
rules over time--some of us anyway.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Foret jr" <rforetjr at comcast.net>
To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 5:20 PM
Subject: [Blindtlk] a question of spacing


> Okay.
>
> Here's the observation.  I cannot help but notice that when I read an 
> e-mail
> from a sighted person, there is only one space following a sentence ending
> period.  However, when I read most blind people's e-mails, (the ones I 
> come
> in to contact with anyhow) I cannot help but observe that there are two
> spaces following a sentence ending period.  With some blind people's
> e-mails, there is only one space following a sentence ending period.  Back
> when I took typing in highschool, we were taught that when you end a
> sentence with a period, you MUST space twice.  Also, paragraphs were to be
> indented by spacing five times in from the left margin.  Nowadays, though,
> it would appear that those rules are changed.  Are paragraphs still to be
> indented five spaces in from the left margin?  And what about spacing 
> after
> sentence ending periods?  As for the five spaces, I rather suspect that 
> this
> was done so as to put the first letter of the first line of the paragraph
> one half inch from the left margin; using pyka type.  With Microsoft word,
> the number of spaces needed to put the insertion point one half inch from
> the left margin appears to be twelve.  Thoughts?  Am I missing something
> somewhere?
>
> Sincerely,
> The Constantly BAREFOOTED Ray
>
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