Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
Mark D Lew wrote, in part:
The argument for double-spacing between sentences is that the inter-sentence gap needs to be larger than the inter-word gap. To single-space after a period makes the inter-word gap and the inter-sentence gap identical.
to which I would note that I was taught that the reason for double spacing after the dot after a sentence was to make it easy for the reader to distinguish between the dot as a signal for an abreviation ("Mr. Smith"), and the dot as a signal for a full stop.
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You must have had the same typing teacher I did -- that's what I was taught, too.
I'm not quite sure what all this discussion is about, though. Sounds like it's starting to be on the level of OS wars.
I've never had a problem reading any document, monospaced font or proportional font, which has two spaces following a period at the end of a sentence. I've also never had a problem reading similar documents which have only one space following a period at the end of a sentence.
Unless such documents were in a language I don't read fluently, and then the number of spaces following the end of a sentence is the least of my problems in understanding the document.
Would anybody who has really had a difficult time understanding my messages with the two spaces following the final punctuation at the end of a sentence (funny how nobody has brought exclamation points or question marks into this discussion -- I double space after them, too) please raise their hands? I don't mean having difficulty understanding my logic or how I could have reached this stage of life with such twisted concepts, but actually had a hard time reading my messages?
The ultimate purpose of typing is to communicate the ideas clearly, not to nitpick over whether a person uses two spaces or one space after a sentence.
Isn't it?
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