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RE: Goose Chase - $20 by paypal to the first one who finds and posts here...
(02-16-2018 09:06 PM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  
(02-16-2018 08:47 AM)toml_12953 Wrote:  In the USA it was always taught to use two spaces. Mechanical typewriters used a monospace font and two spaces made it easier to see the separation of sentences.

The space on a normal, monospacing typewriter was the same width as M or W. In proportional spacing, the spaces are narrower, meaning there's an even greater need for a second space.

From what I have read the practice of using two spaces predates typewriters and was commonly used in typesetting. Looking at a book that was printed by the office of my home town weekly in the late 40's it uses double spaces as does any of the images of old newspapers I looked at on line. However looking at the copy of my home town weekly that just arrived today they now use a single space. I too was taught in school (Ontario Public School) that there should be two spaces after a full stop and I still do it without even thinking about it.

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Again? Or still? - striegel - 02-14-2018, 08:50 PM
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