Type design, setting, fonts, etc.
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It's obvious that the secular trend in English towards shorter sentences will tend to reduce the frequency of periods, at least in the case of works where commas and periods are rarely used as part of numbers and similar non-phrasal symbols.
Shouldn't that be increase?