Michael Felt
Serhiy Storchaka
added the comment: I think they are not required, but recommended.
You should use two spaces after a sentence-ending period in multi- sentence comments, except after the final sentence.
You must adhere to the Emacs convention of adding two spaces at the end of every sentence.
AFAIK in English typography the space after a sentence-ending period is longer than spaces between words. In other European typographies they have the same width.
I thought it was where type setters, classically, used the break between the endings of a sentence - additional 'kerning' could be applied there. Anyway - final question: does .rst reformat line-lingths, or does it present everything literally - only adding ``embellishments``. I have been thinking it does both - and, yet another convention for sentence endings is to always start a sentence on a new line (and two new-lines indicate start of a paragraph. However, for now - double-spaces will remain - and I hope to remember to add my own :)
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