From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sgtsaak@comcast.net   
   Subject: Re: THE SHAT won't be in Crap Trek 2   
      
      
   "Paul"  wrote in message    
   news:Xns9F4BB239D8507Senex@88.198.244.100...   
   > "Dragon Lady"  wrote in   
   > news:j31ver$3ba$1@dont-email.me:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > These conventions should NOT be followed within a word processing   
   > progam, however.  One of the first books about this was "The Mac is   
   > not a Typewriter" by Robin Williams, a woman, not the comedian.   
      
      
   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.  Two 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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