Where is the thread that discusses single vs. double space after a period?

My IBM Correcting Selectric II is still going strong.__I am earnestly knocking on wood as there probably is almost no one still around able to work on it.__(NOTE: underscore of 2 spaces between the sentences!)

. . . . . Pete
 
how did the (insert stereotype here--back in the day it was a northeastern european of certain nationality) know that his typewriter was pregnant?

it started skipping its periods.
 
As Kay says, 2 spaces is for typewriters, or for fonts that imitate them. Modern computers automatically make a slightly bigger space after the period for you in any font that you'd actually want to use.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
2 spaces is an old typing rule. I never understood it. I don't obey it. When I deliver manuscripts with one space, copy editors don't complain.
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Like the layout of the qwerty keyboard, it was intended to prevent typewriter keys from sticking (the bane of my adolescence as I unsuccessfully tried to parlay my Teletype-friendly typing style to the manual Underwood I used at home). It serves no useful purpose now, but I still do it out of habit.

Mark Lipton

p.s. Enough of this nonsense. Let's get on to something of real import, like the Oxford comma.
 
Hard to understand how someone can be strongly opposed to something so innocuous. But then my 14 year old hates bunnies because they are so koochikoo.
 
The Chicago Manual has come out against it, but some habits die hard. I have never had a copy editor complain about two spaces after a period.
 
originally posted by Cliff:
The Chicago Manual has come out against it, but some habits die hard. I have never had a copy editor complain about two spaces after a period.
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I wouldn't know if they complain about two spaces after a period since I've never delivered a manuscript with two spaces after a period. I only know they don't complain about one.
 
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