In 1994, I learned in a newspaper class that you only used that for monospaced fonts (typewriters) and that for variable-width-character fonts, the kerning takes the space after a period into account. I haven't looked back since and snicker and laugh at the double-spacebarers. HA HA!
Lynn Truong
· 4 months ago
Grammar Girls says that we need to move to the one space, since we're no longer in the monospace typewriter age, which was the reason to use double space in the first place.
It's a hard habit to break though.
greggo
· 4 months ago
The iphone's onscreen keyboard has the period character on a different screen, so you have to hit two keys to get a period. But it does have a shortcut for the period -- hit the spacebar twice. It's a habit that will be with me for a while. :)
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It's a hard habit to break though.
screen, so you have to hit two keys to get a period. But it does have a
shortcut for the period -- hit the spacebar twice. It's a habit that will
be with me for a while. :)