[Blindtlk] a question of spacing

[Gary Wunder]

I know that in Dragon NaturallySpeaking, one is given the option of one or 
two spaces after a period so my guess is this is now considered optional by 
those who make the rules.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve P. Deeley" <stevep.deeley at insightbb.com>
To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] a question of spacing


>I think people are just lazy and don't place the other space after the 
>period!  That is too much like work!\
> Steve----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Sivill" <mike.sivill at viewplus.com>
> To: "'Ray Foret jr'" <rforetjr at comcast.net>; "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" 
> <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 5:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] a question of spacing
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>> 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
>> To: Blind Talk Mailing List
>> 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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