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Originally Posted by DSTRen13
I have been typing with two spaces after each period for about twenty years now; all my teachers from elementary through high school insisted on it (college professors didn't seem to care as long as you were consistent). It's instinct; trying to type with only one space is painful. I'm curious to get other thoughts on this? Have I really been typing everything wrong (including my cover letters?!) my entire life?
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You are typing correctly, at least as far as I'm concerned.
Actually. both are right. Two spaces follow a sentence in typewritten (as in done on a typewriter) in order to make the text easier to read. It's not required in typeset fonts, like one typically has in a word processing program, but it got carried over by the people who learned to type on typewriters. I know some word processing programs did (and perhaps still do) automatically replace a single space after a period with two spaces unless you set it not to. I still think two spaces is easier to read/looks better, especially given that proportional spacing will adjust it some anyway. Often with proportional spacing, one space just puts sentences too close together for my taste.