[Python-Dev] textwrap.py

[Guido van Rossum]

>     'French Spacing, oo-la-la, you want it all fancy, huh?

The really bizarre thing being that in LaTeX, \frenchspacing means
*not* to put extra space after a sentence!

It also appears right that (human) typsetters did stretch the space
between sentences more than the space between words when stretching a
line to right-justify it.  In order to do that with a computer
typesetting program, and to avoid it assuming a sentence ends after
other use of periods (e.g. in "Mr. Lundh"), you have to tell it where
the sentences end.  Double spacing is a convenient convention for
that.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)