Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@twofifty.com> writes:

> Totally off the subject, double-space after period is a mechanical
> typewriter anachronism that you should really break yourself of. I'm
> sure you're no longer reaching up for the lever to return the carriage,
> right?

It's not about mechanical typewriters, but about style conventions in
English with fixed-space fonts.  In other languages, such as French, the
convenion is to use a single space.  The CHANGES document is plain
ASCII, and thus would normally be rendered in a fixed-space font such as
8x13 (so that it looks as much as possible like a VT52 :-).  (Note the
two spaces following periods in my reply.)

See http://www.nongnu.org/texi2latex/texinfo/frenchspacing.html