June 4, 2002
2:07 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 09:29:51AM -0400, Fran?ois Pinard wrote:
[1] Full stops are punctuation ending sentences with two spaces guaranteed. Full stops are defined that way for typography based on fixed width fonts, like when we say "this many characters to a line".
I don't think this really matters, because I doubt anyone will be implementing full justification. Left justification is just a matter of inserting newlines at particular points, so if the input data has two spaces after punctuation, line-breaking won't introduce any errors. --amk