View Poll Results: What spacing convention do you follow at the end of a sentence?
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Do You Single or Double Space After a Period?
15 February 2013, 09:38 PM
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Either is fine, but it doesn't really matter these days and here's why?
The practice arose when using typewriters and old printing plate technology as it made a good visual break for sentences. However with the rise of computers the practice didn't really work.
The reason is that old printing technology and typewriters by definition used monospaced fonts e.g. each letter takes uo the same amount of space e.g. an i was as long as an m so when two spaces were left at the end of a sentence the gap was significant.
With computers most fonts are proportional i.e. an i takes up less space than an m and hence the two space gap wasn't that different to a one space gap so it fell out of favour.
Then came the internet where two spaces in HTML is always rendered as one space unless the tag is used.
So use either.... both are fine
The practice arose when using typewriters and old printing plate technology as it made a good visual break for sentences. However with the rise of computers the practice didn't really work.
The reason is that old printing technology and typewriters by definition used monospaced fonts e.g. each letter takes uo the same amount of space e.g. an i was as long as an m so when two spaces were left at the end of a sentence the gap was significant.
With computers most fonts are proportional i.e. an i takes up less space than an m and hence the two space gap wasn't that different to a one space gap so it fell out of favour.
Then came the internet where two spaces in HTML is always rendered as one space unless the tag is used.
So use either.... both are fine
the word you are looking for is kerning
15 February 2013, 10:19 PM
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I was taught at school to double space. Now I'm only 22 so it wasn't that long ago. Plus it wasn't in just IT lessons, it was in other lessons that involved computers too.
When I type on my phone which I'm doing now, it's one space, otherwise I'll try to do two. Although the habbit of 2 spaces is slowly dwindling away and I find myself only hitting the bar once a lot of the times.
When I type on my phone which I'm doing now, it's one space, otherwise I'll try to do two. Although the habbit of 2 spaces is slowly dwindling away and I find myself only hitting the bar once a lot of the times.
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16 February 2013, 12:18 AM
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18 February 2013, 06:17 PM
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More accurately the two weeks before, and the two weeks after 
Originally Posted by Lydia72
Afterwards is fine, it's the three days before you need to worry about
Afterwards is fine, it's the three days before you need to worry about
Last edited by his-n-her-scoobs; 18 February 2013 at 06:18 PM.
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