Apparently the convention comes about because it makes it easier to distinguish the end of a sentence, both from the preceding sentence and from mid-sentence abbreviations terminated with a period when using a typewriter.
Current teaching does not require two spaces after a sentence, and you really shouldn't use a double space when using proportional fonts.
Rendering a double space after a period requires an entity ( ) to display properly... a pretty hefty price code-wise.
Terrence Wood.
john wrote:
I'm simply wondering about the grammatically-correct double space after a period. For years, it's never mattered to me, but I have a client who is a stickler for this sort of thing, and he asked if I could please add the extra spaces in his site.
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