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From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:02:37 -0300
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package: kill pointless text justification
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On 04/22/2015 07:32 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> Well, it's not entirely incorrect.
> 
> English typography used to require there is a double-space (or two word
> spaces, can't remeber the typographic name) between the full-stop and
> the next sentence:
> 
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop#Spacing_after_a_full_stop
> 
> However, this usage has been gradually declining in favour of a single
> space, but is till widely used, especially when submitting manuscripts.
> 
> Well, except for us Froggies, who only always used single-spacing. ;-)

Actually it's related to scribes in a historical context:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment#History

It was one of the tricks used to keep all the lines of the same length
(visually).
Regards.