Sentence Spacing

My twitter stream informed me the other day that “-30-” was often used at the end of newspaper stories, to mean “end of the newspaper story”...

Myths are powerful factors in our lives.  They can blind us from the truth.  One such myth I've discussed often is the idea that monospa...

A tale of rape and prostitution, religion and science, fish and birds. Note: Even though I am publishing this on April Fools Day, and abo...

This ad appeared in  Scientific American , v79 No. 5, July 30, 1898; via Wikipedia People absolutely love “firsts”.  The first man to ...

So I was on twitter last month when Marcin Wichary asked “Any ideas on what this key/glyph was for in the early Sholes Glidden typewriter?”...

Just a quick update with some good passages I've come across. The first, is from Bookbinding and Book Production, Volume 50, page 76, ...

Functional • The period is an overloaded piece of punctuation with multiple meanings. Periods alone are ambiguous or misleading sentence t...