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Re: End-of-sentence spacing


From: James K. Lowden
Subject: Re: End-of-sentence spacing
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 17:36:48 -0500

On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:18:19 +0000
Karthik Suresh <k.suresh@jayamony.co.uk> wrote:

> I think it's also the advice Brian Kernighan gives about breaking
> at natural phrase points in the text as we tend to edit a phrase at a
> time.

I hadn't heard that.  Do you know where you read it?  

A had a college professor who claimed Victor Hugo (I think; it wasn't
yesterday) would write standing up, and shout out each line to make
sure it sounded right.  

Personally, I've never been willing to work that hard.  It might be why
he's famous and I'm not.  

--jkl



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