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With respect to end of sentence spaces. I'm an "old" and learned on typewriters and type two spaces is etched into my muscle memory and my brain. It wasn't until 2016 that while working collaboratively on a large google doc (which was occasionally brought into Word by others) that I was made aware that two spaces were no longer the norm.

It was like an editing PVP game where these would be fixed in near real-time by others in the document we were working on :-)

Yes the web text today removes these today but I still prefer reading text in the old RFC document style where it's not only fixed width fonts, but also right and left column justified. In emacs this can be done by selecting a region and doing a C-u ESC q

:-)



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