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Re: End-of-sentence spacing, for our German readers
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Dorai Sitaram |
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Re: End-of-sentence spacing, for our German readers |
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Thu, 14 Jan 2021 06:01:33 +0000 (UTC) |
I'm used to single-spacing by now, given its ubiquity, but surely the Germans
carry their disdain for typographic breathing space a little too far? As in the
posted article, paragraphs are difficult to visually separate, lacking as they
do both leading horizontal indentation and vertical separation. (The one
fragile clue that a paragraph has ended is that its last line MAY not reach all
the way to the right margin. But every now and then it will by the laws of
probability, and the reader is sunk.)
Add to this the longcompoundwordswithouthyphens, and the whole thing is only an
epsilon away from scriptio continua. No wonder Th. Mann said the hell with it
and wrote chapter-sized paragraphs.
--d
On Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 10:51:06 PM EST, Ulrich Lauther
<ulrich.lauther@t-online.de> wrote:
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 01:16:54PM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2020, Ulrich Lauther wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 10:27:01AM +0000, Dorai Sitaram wrote:
> > > groff pretty much forces one to use two spaces after
> > > sentence-ending punctuation, unless it's at the end of a source
> > > line.
> >
> > In my opinion it is good style to start every sentence on a new
> > source line.
>