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Speaking of em spaces, I am reading The Far Side of Paradise, Mizener's wonderful biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was published in the 1950s, I think. I was astonished to see a double-wide space following every sentence, much as we were taught in typing class at Brewster Free Academy (using Army-surplus Remington manual typewriters). I have never before seen such a thing in a published book. What was Houghton Mifflin thinking?
I apologize for hijacking the thread, but to me this is a momentous discovery (despite the fact that I'd read the book years ago) and I just had to tell someone!
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