 | | Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat —David Martineau
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| | | (...) That's an out-dated concept taught by keyboarding instructors who were originally taught on fixed-width font systems e.g. typewriters. There is no longer a need to extend distances between the end of one sentence and the beginning of another, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat —Constantine Hannaher
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| | | | | (...) Not to mention that modern word processing software takes cares of inter-sentence spacing by itself. The typing of a second space is a wasted keystroke. (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Or, uh, e-mail and usenet news (like lugnet), which should *always* use fixed-width fonts. (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat —Shiri Dori
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| | | | (...) But, reading lugnet on the web, it doesn't. -Shiri (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Yeah, I've got mixed feelings about that. :) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) I've always hated it. Historically, the reason it uses Times Roman (or else the browser's default) rather than Courier (or whatever <PRE> results in) is because the default fixed-width font in both NN & MSIE on low-end 640x480 displays (common (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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