07-15-2010, 05:42 PM
AlphaDog wrote:
[quote=billb]
Well ?
Well, why is there a space between the last letter of the word and the question mark? Somebody else here does that, too. At first I thought it was a typo, but I've now noticed it's intentional. Is this another of those new fangled things like using only one space between sentences?
Taught that way.
French spacing.
Progressive New England schools ?
space between question mark, exclamation point , ellipsises, but not a period or comma. ( anything taller than a period, iirc) Depending on who was reading a paper, sometimes there had to be double spacing between sentences.
Also a little bit of typesetting a long time ago, a half space was required with the same set of rules.
I do sometimes do space, comma, space , erroneously.