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Originally Posted by MysticCat
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. |
It was the opposite with me. Proportional spacing made the space too wide with two spaces after the period. This is what made me second guess the second space. My reports just looked weird with two spaces between each sentence. I started wondering if I'd just made up that rule...it had been 20 years since I took keyboarding so anything was possible!
