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List:       applixware-list
Subject:    Re: BUGS: Paragraphs with inset equations
From:       "J.  Lasser" <jon () lasser ! org>
Date:       1998-11-04 22:08:27
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In the wise words of Barney Maccabe:

> I'd really like a source on this "good style."  (The good folks at
> Frame used to cite a similar mysterious source.  As far as I can tell,
> it was their own source.)  When I worked for a printer and actually
> set type (yes, I'm *that* old), we always added extra space (leading)
> after a sentence.  Knuth confirms this practice in the TeX books--and
> I tend to trust his research.

That's just it: for computer-produced documents, the assumption is that
the typesetter or typesetting software will handle the extra spacing,
not the user.

Jon
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