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<blockquote data-quote="forensicbuzz" data-source="post: 955298" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>Two spaces was never correct typesetting. Never. However, like most things, necessity (manual typewriters and non-uniform typeset sizing) led people to start doing it. However, you can pick any professional publication anywhere in the world, any year of the world, and you would find that 1 space after a period has always been the convention. </p><p></p><p>Most publications are fully justified, so the spacing between words is almost alway irregular. Your comment about a place to rest your eyes doesn’t make much sense to me. </p><p></p><p>You’ll notice, even on your phone, when you hit two spaces at the end of a sentence it will add the period and a single space. Two spaces has become an accepted norm by most style manuals, but all I’ve ever looked at state a single space is the proper convention. </p><p></p><p>I find people who use 2 spaces are 45 or older and all claim it’s too difficult to change or looks weird. I, too, learned with two spaces after a period; it took me 1 long report to break myself of the habit. To me, it looks clunky, especially with full justification, but to each his/her/their/tree/sponge own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="forensicbuzz, post: 955298, member: 198"] Two spaces was never correct typesetting. Never. However, like most things, necessity (manual typewriters and non-uniform typeset sizing) led people to start doing it. However, you can pick any professional publication anywhere in the world, any year of the world, and you would find that 1 space after a period has always been the convention. Most publications are fully justified, so the spacing between words is almost alway irregular. Your comment about a place to rest your eyes doesn’t make much sense to me. You’ll notice, even on your phone, when you hit two spaces at the end of a sentence it will add the period and a single space. Two spaces has become an accepted norm by most style manuals, but all I’ve ever looked at state a single space is the proper convention. I find people who use 2 spaces are 45 or older and all claim it’s too difficult to change or looks weird. I, too, learned with two spaces after a period; it took me 1 long report to break myself of the habit. To me, it looks clunky, especially with full justification, but to each his/her/their/tree/sponge own. [/QUOTE]
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