[Blindtlk] a question of spacing

[Mike Sivill]

Hi Ray,
I was told that the "two spaces" rule has been dropped. I guess a lot of us
missed the memo. Sorry, I can't cite any text saying that though.
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Ray Foret jr
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 2:21 PM
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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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