One or Two Spaces After Punctuation? 1212 Responses

Last post: 2 years, 9 months ago | Thread started: Aug 26, 10, 8:14 a.m.

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• fredddddd

  What do you do? I remember being taught 2 in elementary school.

  Aug 26, 10, 8:14 a.m. – Permalink

• brandelec

  one space is accepted

  

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  Dog-earAug 26, 10, 8:15 a.m. – Permalink

• silentseven

  "The use of a single space after the concluding punctuation of a sentence is the modern convention for professional typesetting, final, and published work (e.g. books, journals, and periodicals). The use of a double space after a sentence has reversed nearly completely, primarily because of the widespread use of proportional fonts. "

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  Dog-earAug 26, 10, 8:18 a.m. – Permalink

• fredddddd

  Damn

  • < find and replace.– 74LEO1/4

    At least it wasn't the other way around then you b fuk'd– 74LEO2/4

    my whole life?– fredddddd3/4

    no, just replace ". " with ". "– mikotondria34/4

  

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  Dog-earAug 26, 10, 8:23 a.m. – Permalink

• duckofrubber

  First thing I do when pasting clients' copy from word into indesign is find and replace all the double spaces with single spaces. Don't do that shit.

  

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  Dog-earAug 26, 10, 8:34 a.m. – Permalink

• CALLES

  

  

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  Dog-earAug 26, 10, 8:37 a.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  Single spaces, only and always. Double spacing is a bad habit that goes back to Victorian times. It hurts readability by introducing irregular chunks of white space.

  • +1– monospaced1/2

    The Victorian Times...is that a newspaper?– robulation2/2

  

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  Dog-earAug 26, 10, 8:41 a.m. – Permalink

• CALLES

  Save the trees

  

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  Dog-earAug 26, 10, 8:44 a.m. – Permalink

• MSL

  I was always told that it was a throw back to when you had old typewriters and you had to double space to avoid the letter arms/spindles getting caught up when typing very quickly.

  Probably a load of old bullshit.

  Anyway - don't double space, looks retarded.

  

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  Dog-earAug 26, 10, 8:53 a.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  http://www.qbn.com/topics/582045…

  

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  Dog-earAug 26, 10, 8:56 a.m. – Permalink

• ItTango

  Spaces, slightly off topic: Ever receive a document from a client in which they've attempted to create columns by simply hitting the space bar a thousand times? Makes me homicidal!

  

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  Dog-earAug 26, 10, 9:01 a.m. – Permalink

• Jimbo82

  Single.

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  • < Is that an em dash?– utopian1/2

    seriously, no more discussion– monospaced2/2

  

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  Dog-earAug 26, 10, 9:02 a.m. – Permalink

• fooler2

  

  • read it!– fooler2

  

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  Dog-earAug 26, 10, 9:12 a.m. – Permalink