From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sgtsaak@comcast.net   
   Subject: Re: THE SHAT won't be in Crap Trek 2   
      
      
   "Harold Groot"  wrote in message    
   news:4e5457cf.14617062@news.west.earthlink.net...   
   > On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:02:15 -0600, "Dragon Lady"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> wrote in message   
   >>news:fja2579j6k5t4imiee7n7c8rsqoj5o93h9@4ax.com...   
   >>> Your spelling is worthless.  Oh, and educated people double space   
   >>> between sentences.   
   >>   
   >>Um...educated people double space between paragraphs, not between    
   >>sentences.   
   >   
   >   
   > You two are talking about two different things there.  The first   
   > person is talking about using two spacebar spaces after a period when   
   > starting the next sentence in the same paragraph.  You are talking   
   > about using two carriage returns before starting the next paragraph   
   > (thus leaving a blank line between them).   
      
   Ah!  Now it makes sense.   
   >   
   > Actually, this is more of a "Your Generation May Vary" thing than   
   > anything else.  Back before, oh, 1985 or so people were taught to put   
   > two spaces after a period when typing.  Somewhere along the way in the   
   > Home Computer Age, however, this stopped being taught.  I suspect that   
   > it was because a lot of people who were self-taught on a keyboard were   
   > not using this convention, and the Powers That Be decided not to fight   
   > what was obviously a losing battle.  Somewhere around dial-up modems   
   > to reach a BBS, perhaps during the time when AOL had their period of   
   > biggest growth, single spaces first became accepted.  Later on it   
   > became the norm.   
      
   You mean the hunt and peck people?  :D  Anybody 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.  I take it they don't teach that anymore?   
   Personally, I think it made it easier to read.   
      
   >   
   > Of course, paragraphs used to start out indented.  Since this gave a   
   > visual clue that a new paragraph had started, you didn't need to leave   
   > a blank line in between them.  Somewhere along the way (still in the   
   > computer age) the style changed FOR COMPUTERS of dropping the   
   > indentation and using a blank line instead.  It's a bit easier to read   
   > and there are essentially no penalties for taking the extra lines.   
   > Books, newspapers and so on still use indented paragraphs (without the   
   > blank lines) because using more paper means higher costs.   
   >   
   > As you can see, I'm only partly committed to the new style.  I don't   
   > indent paragraphs (using a blank line instead), but I still use double   
   > spacebar spaces before I start a new sentence.  Again, that little bit   
   > of extra white space makes it a little easier to read (IMHO).   
      
   Actually, it sounds like you grew up in the same generation as I did.  I do    
   the same thing though.  Like you, I find it easier to read with the double    
   space between paragraphs and after periods.   
      
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