Re: Spaces after commas

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Mon, September 14, 1998 at 13:35:18 (+0000), David Miller x4963 wrote: ]
> Subject: Spaces after commas
>
> How many spaces should there be after a comma? Are there any rules
> regarding spaces after punctuation marks? What are they?

In Canada typists have usually been taught to put two spaces after
punctuation that ends a sentence, and often after a colon that precedes
a list.

I don't know if there are rules about typestting or not (though I
presume there are).  My guess is that it looks better in typesetting to
have a slightly wider gap between sentences too, perhaps an EM space
instead of an EN space (to use the troff terms).

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