From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <10ke0p9$1tiu5$2@dont-email.me>,   
   Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   >On 1/16/26 12:45, Paul Dormer wrote:   
   >> In article <10kdp51$1kju4$1@dont-email.me>,   
   >> evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com (Evelyn C. Leeper) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> (The rule about two spaces between sentences seems to have fallen by   
   >>> the wayside years ago.)   
   >>   
   >> I've been doing double spaces for so long now, I can't stop doing it.   
   >   
   >I decided towards the end of last year I was going switch the MT VOID to   
   >single spaces. I also switched to the more rational placement of periods   
   >and commas within or without quotation marks.   
   >   
   >And I had been doing double spaces for sixty years.   
   >   
   >(Annoyingly, vi will make a double space if you join two lines, the   
   >first of which has a sentence end. Yes, I'm still using vi.)   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
      
   Yay, vi!  Dorothy wrote an entire novel, and quite a few short   
   stories, using vi with -ms macros and nroff.   
      
   It may be telling that the web version of the revised document   
   on using -ms macros for text production couldn't actually   
   replicate some of the formatting possible with the -ms macros and   
   nroff.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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