From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2005-12-01T09:52:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Splitting a text file into sentences


Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 11/30/05, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> [...] The two spaces *simulates* an
> >> em-space in a typeset piece of work. (And that is *fact*, not
> >> opinion.)
>
> > What rot.  How can anything like that be a fact?  You're regurgitating
> > the opinion of a style manual.
>
> Um. No, I'm stating fact. This isn't mere opinion: two spaces were done
> to simulate em-spaces in fixed pitch environments. That's a fact.  [...]

Fair enough.

Gavin