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One space not two

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Until now i have always used the 'two space' rule after a period. The only reason i can put my 'two space passion' down to was seeing my mother typing when i was a kid and asking her why she put two spaces after the period. It was, as Bill points out in this video, was because in a fixed width font system you needed more space after the period to make it readable. Funny thing is ... that i have just realised that as i am typing this i am still putting two spaces in :) It is a natural thing for me now... but something i will change after watching this video. Bill is funny to listen to.

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  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2004
    I always used two as well, but when I wrote a few articles for sportingnews.com while I worked there the editor who cleaned up my writing got on me about using two, and ever since I've always tried to use only one :)
  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2004
    You realise this is holy war territory, the writer's equivalent of big-endian vs. little-endian, vi vs. emacs, K&R vs. BSD and Java vs. .NE-- oh, hang on.

    grin
  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2004
    Two spaces is part of the MLA standard. One space is APA standard. Not sure what Chicago says. You should follow whatever the guidlines are in the standard you are targetting.