Talk:River (typography)

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[edit] Spacing between sentences

When using typewriters, many of us were taught to leave two spaces at the end of a sentence, presumably to help the reader see that that was where a sentence in fact ended. (Evidently a period and a following capital letter were not considered enough.) When I read some advice on typing résumés, I was told to get out of that habit, as it would create unnecessary (and, presumably, unattractive) white spaces, which I think is what this article is about. HTML won't give you an extra space unless you type in   twice (or at least once before or after a regular space), so you won't normally see rivers on Webpages. Nonetheless, I sometimes see rivers in Wikipedia editors or when going to "View Source." Is there any way some of this information and background can be incorporated into the article without violating rules against original research? 66.234.220.195 (talk) 05:54, 28 February 2008 (UTC)