One Space... Or Two?

I've never heard of using two spaces before.
Two spaces at the beginning of a paragraph yes, but one space everywhere else.
 
Freefaller said:
Agreed - but I do use 2 spaces as that's what I was taught, and is now a force of habit! :) However, it's just a matter of style, I doubt it has any significant grammatical implications - it's not as if you pause slightly longer in between each sentence! :D
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Single space, right ! lol !! :D
 
Castiel said:
That is because it is old fashioned and since they invented computers and printers you no longer have to.

Those that say you do are simply living in the past or in the case of Stulid )
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How old fashioned?

I was in Kindergarten learning to write in 1977!
 
Scubascorpion said:
How old fashioned?

I was in Kindergarten learning to write in 1977!
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Well I was learning to write in kindergarten before that and I was taught that way, however it has since become obsolete.

With the introduction of proportional fonts in computers, double sentence spacing became obsolete. These proportional fonts now assign appropriate horizontal space to each character (including punctuation marks), and can modify kerning values to adjust spaces following terminal punctuation, so there is less need to manually increase spacing between sentences. From around 1950, single sentence spacing became standard in books, magazines and newspapers. Regardless, many still believe that double spaces are correct. The debate continues, notably on the World Wide Web—as many people use search engines to try to find what is correct. Many people prefer double sentence spacing for informal use because that was how they were taught to type. There is a debate on which convention is more legible, and the few recent direct studies have produced inconclusive results.

Most modern literature on typography says that double spacing is wrong, but some non-typographical sources indicate that it could be used on a typewriter or with a monospaced font. The majority of style guides opt for a single space after terminal punctuation for final and published work, with a few permitting double spacing in draft manuscripts and for specific circumstances based on personal preference
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Pretty much says it all.
 
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/d...two-spaces-after-a-full-stop-is-wrong-period/


Every modern typographer agrees on the one-space rule. It’s one of the canonical rules of the profession, in the same way that waiters know that the salad fork goes to the left of the dinner fork and fashion designers know to put men’s shirt buttons on the right and women’s on the left. Every major style guide—including the Modern Language Association Style Manual and the Chicago Manual of Style—prescribes a single space after a period. (The Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association, used widely in the social sciences, allows for two spaces in draft manuscripts but recommends one space in published work.) Most ordinary people would know the one-space rule, too, if it weren’t for a quirk of history. In the middle of the last century, a now-outmoded technology—the manual typewriter—invaded the American workplace. To accommodate that machine’s shortcomings, everyone began to type wrong. And even though we no longer use typewriters, we all still type like we do. (Also see the persistence of the dreaded Caps Lock key.)
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