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On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 04:36:34PM -0800, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> 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 is also used by text processors, such as TeX and emacs, to
disambiguate between a period used for an abbrev. vs. a period used to
end a sentence, when filling and formatting line breaks.  The same
applies to consecutive newlines as paragraph breaks.

Still off-subject, but (marginally?) less anachronistic.

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Dan.
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