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Old 05-08-2015, 10:14 PM   #21
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The reason The Far Side of Paradise astounded me is that I have read three or four thousand books in my lifetime so far, from scores of publishers in half a dozen countries. and nowhere else I have I seen double-width spacing following a full stop.
Read some books printed before 1920 and most of them have that.
E.g, browse some books at the Hathi Trust, which has lots of old public domain books online.
This one from 1913: Adnam's orchard.
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