From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: edrhodes@hotmail.com   
   Subject: Re: THE SHAT won't be in Crap Trek 2   
      
   On Aug 25, 10:49apm, "Dragon Lady"  wrote:   
   > "Adam H. Kerman"  wrote in messagenews:j34h2s   
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   > > Dragon Lady  wrote:   
   > >>"Paul"  wrote:   
   > >>>"Dragon Lady"  wrote:   
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   > >>>>You mean the hunt and peck people? a:D aAnybody who was taught to   
   > >>>>type using a QWERTY keyboard was also taught that you spaced twice   
   > >>>>after a period when I was learning to type. aI take it they don't   
   > >>>>teach that anymore? Personally, I think it made it easier to read.   
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   > >>>It is still good to use two spaces after a period, and two line feeds   
   > >>>between paragraphs written in plain text, such as here, on Usenet.   
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   > >>>These conventions should NOT be followed within a word processing   
   > >>>progam, however. aOne of the first books about this was "The Mac is   
   > >>>not a Typewriter" by Robin Williams, a woman, not the comedian.   
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   > >>Um...MS Word actually protests if you don't use two spaces after a period.   
   > >>You get a wavy green line telling you it's not proper. aTwo spaces between   
   > >>paragraphs are only necessary if you're not indenting your paragraphs.   
   > >>That's the way it's always been, IIRC.   
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   > > Turn off "spell and grammar check as you type" feature. It's annoying.   
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   > Not when you make as many typos as I do. a:P   
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   > > I hunt for extraneously space and remove it.   
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   > Er...which extraneous space? aThe one after the period isn't extraneous.   
   > Just because they've stopped teaching it doesn't mean it isn't supposed to   
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   In her book "The Mac is Not A Typewriter," Robin Williams states that   
   the double space after a period goes with typewriters which printed in   
   fixed spaces. As word processors printed in variable spaces, it wasn't   
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