[Blindtlk] a question of spacing

[Bonnie]

I still tend to double space after I type.  I've noticed that I've still 
done it in this email.  LOL!  On Twitter though, I tend to use one space 
between each sentence because spacing matters when tweeting. It counts each 
space as characters, unfortunately.

As for paragraph styles, I tend toward the block style, meaning that I don't 
insert five spaces.  However, I do put a line between each paragraph.

Bonnie Ainsworth
Lincoln, NE USA
Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/cedarwan1965


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Hicks" <danjhicks at yahoo.com>
To: "Ray Foret jr" <rforetjr at comcast.net>; "Blind Talk Mailing List" 
<blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] a question of spacing


Stuff like this fascinates me.

When I leaned to type, back when typewriters were manual and about as heavy
as engine-blocks, we were taught to type two spaces after a period. A long
time ago I notices that most typeset stuff does not have two spaces after a
period, but I dutifully continued to type two spaces after each period.

Then I read a couple of good grammar books that address this issue. One of
them, I believe is "The Elephants Of Style: A Trunkload Of Tips On The Big
Issues And Gray Areas Of Contemporary American English" by Bill Walsh (DB-
or RC-59150). This book explains that the reason for double-spacing after a
sentence has to do with the old-fashioned way typesetting used to be done.
It took me about a week to break that lifelong habit of double-spacing, and
now I don't do it at all.  Well, almost never.

About the tab going in all those spaces -- you may be using a very small
font, or you have something set a bit strangely. That would be my take on
that.