One or Two Spaces After Punctuation?
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- fredddddd
What do you do? I remember being taught 2 in elementary school.
- brandelec0
one space is accepted
- silentseven0
"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. "
- fredddddd0
Damn
- < find and replace.74LEO
- At least it wasn't the other way around then you b fuk'd74LEO
- my whole life?fredddddd
- no, just replace ". " with ". "mikotondria3
- duckofrubber0
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.
- gramme0
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.
- +1monospaced
- The Victorian Times...is that a newspaper?robulation
- CALLES0
Save the trees
- MSL0
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.
- ItTango0
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!
- Jimbo820
Single.
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- < Is that an em dash?utopian
- seriously, no more discussionmonospaced