When, oh when...

[adderslj]

..will people learn that you don't need to put two spaces after a full stop in word processing?

*mutter, mutter, mutter*

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[izzylobo.livejournal.com]

In the days of typewriters with monospace typefaces (where every character takes up the exact same amount of space), using . was necessary to seperate "full-stop" ends of sentences from just another space in the text between words.

In the modern day of variable-width typefaces, where an "I" takes up a different amount of space from an "i" or an "x", there is automatic space added to the end of a . (or other full-stop punctuation) - as a result, the space is automatically wider between sentences than between words without you needing to do anything.

In environments where the monospace type is still used, you still need to put two spaces after a full-stop punctuation - for instance, in USENET. But in day-to-day typing, and especially in typing intended for publishing, you shouldn't - all it does is make the typesetter/graphic designer's life more difficult, since they have to do an extra find/replace.

Scott

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[adders.livejournal.com]

Bingo.