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New Disagree if you like.
You will find no professionally typeset material with two spaces after a full stop.

You're entitled to your opinion, but it's wrong.


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New I'd like to recommend
[link|http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881792063/sr=8-1/qid=1155595044/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-5610957-5315005?ie=UTF8|The Elements of Typographic Style], by Robert Bringhurst. It contains an extensive discussion on this... and he's fully in agreement with Peter, even with monospaced fonts. It's a great book; I'd recommend it in general, not just for checking out the question of full stop double space.
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Expand Edited by jake123 Aug. 14, 2006, 06:39:57 PM EDT
New "Wrong" ... heh
How Marloweschatological of you!

especially in such times as multitudes of lazy composers imagine selves to be e e cummings each imagining that other punctuation is as dispensable as the full stop == two spaces as intended by [T]he [B]ard and ever since commas colons semicolons join the simple period now as compressible for some notion of efficiency this renders the paragraph as the new [.tar] homogenized sentence of corporate printing efficiency__Words.__fail.__but I digress[.__] perhaps when nothing is sacred then nothing shall remain legible too[.__] i robot

New Dunno.
Saying ".__" is always wrong strikes me as a bit too dogmatic. Like others, I was taught in typing class that two spaces go after a period that ends a sentence.

A lot of text that's published is fully justified or uses [link|http://www2.ncsu.edu:8010/ncsu/grammar/Typo3.html|compensatory spacing] - the spacing on the line is adjusted to minimize the jagged right edge. An example is provided in the sample pages in the book Jake pointed out on Amazon. Saying there's a hard-and-fast rule that one space goes after a period seems a bit simplistic to me.

As the link says, with compensatory spacing, it's most common to use one space. But it also says that the proper choice can depend on the font used.

So, I dunno.

Cheers,
Scott.
New If it's not dogmatic...
...why do no professional typesetters or designers use two spaces after a full stop? Irrespective of proportional or compensatory spacing, they don't do it. At all. EvAr.

Aside: the obnoxious habit that some people have of forcing the issue in HTML using NBSP entities just makes cut'n'paste more difficult, with the side benefit of producing copy that appears to have been typeset by a monkey on crack.


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     What bad habits would they be? - (static) - (12)
         Text editors in general and UNIX in particular - (pwhysall) - (11)
             Two spaces has nothing to do with Unix - (drewk) - (8)
                 Bingo! I was tought that in the 8th grade typing. - (a6l6e6x)
                 Ditto - typing class in high school. - (Steve Lowe) - (6)
                     Stupid - (drewk) - (5)
                         Disagree if you like. - (pwhysall) - (4)
                             I'd like to recommend - (jake123)
                             "Wrong" ... heh - (Ashton)
                             Dunno. - (Another Scott) - (1)
                                 If it's not dogmatic... - (pwhysall)
             Two spaces after the period . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                 LaTeX is guilty of the latter. - (static)

This theory is not even wrong.
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