Two Spaces After A Period?

[Tom Clancy]

I think he needs to find a new hobby if he cares that much about this .

 

[Granny]

Two spaces after the period. What confused the crap out of me was the guy who dictated "stop" instead of "period." I actually typed "stop" quite a few times before I figured out what the hell he was doing - slowed down my speed trying to avoid 4 keystrokes instead of anticipating 1 keystroke.

 

[saveliberty]

All hail speed over content and meaning. I see a whole generation of people communicationg more and understanding less.

 

[Granny]

All hail speed over content and meaning. I see a whole generation of people communicationg more and understanding less.

You've never been a secretary have you? There are rules to dictation and saying "stop" is not one of them.

 

[uscitizen]

Will using 2 spaces cause some unstable people to go our and shoot a dozen or so?

 

[syrenn]

Despite what countless people seem to think, it’s “totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong” to use two spaces after a period, writes Farhad Manjoo in Slate. It’s been the case since the early 20th century, but you wouldn't know it based on his readers ("In editing letters for my occasional tech-advice column, I've removed enough extra spaces to fill my forthcoming volume of melancholy epic poetry, The Emptiness Within") or his friends: When he asked a dinner party group consisting of doctors and computer programmers, "Everyone—everyone!—said it was proper to use two spaces." When he told them they were doing it wrong, they had one big question: Says who?

In one word: Typographers. It's a "canonical" rule of the profession, "in the same way that waiters know that the salad fork goes to the left of the dinner fork." So why do we insert spaces to our heart's delight? Blame manual typewriters, which used monospaced type—each letter was afforded the same amount of space. On those machines, two spaces after a period made things more readable. But nearly every font on the modern PC is proportional: an "I" gets less space than an "N," for example. Now, "adding two spaces after a period no longer enhances readability, typographers say. It diminishes it."

Please Stop Putting Two Spaces After a Period - It's a leftover practice from manual typewriters, writes Farhad Manjoo

Arrrgh! This is so wrong!

What say you?

If you had the choice of one month or two after a period what would you prefer?

That is of course, as opposed to a full stop.

 

[Big Black Dog]

Back when my wife was having periods, I used to give her lots of space. Most likely 4 or 5 spaces when she came to a period.

 

[syrenn]

Back when my wife was having periods, I used to give her lots of space. Most likely 4 or 5 spaces when she came to a period.

see?

 

[saveliberty]

All hail speed over content and meaning. I see a whole generation of people communicationg more and understanding less.

You've never been a secretary have you? There are rules to dictation and saying "stop" is not one of them.

Nope, they work for me. I never made a comment on the term you cite.