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  2. Sentence spacing in language and style guides - Wikipedia

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    The Style manual for authors, editors and printers (6th edn, 2002), [14] sponsored by the Australian Government, stipulates that only one space is used after "sentence-closing punctuation", and that "Programs for word processing and desktop publishing offer more sophisticated, variable spacing, so this practice of double spacing is now avoided ...

  3. Sentence spacing - Wikipedia

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    Sentence spacing concerns how spaces are inserted between sentences in typeset text and is a matter of typographical convention. [1] Since the introduction of movable-type printing in Europe, various sentence spacing conventions have been used in languages with a Latin alphabet. [2]

  4. History of sentence spacing - Wikipedia

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    French spacing is tight spacing with equal word spacing throughout a line, i.e., no extra space after a period, colon, etc. The purpose is not only to create a tighter looking, evenly colored page, but more important, to avoid rivers. In some ad shops, French spacing is understood to mean optically equal word spacing. As to the "French" part of ...

  5. Punctuation - Wikipedia

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    Treatment of whitespace in HTML discouraged the practice (in English prose) of putting two full spaces after a full stop, since a single or double space would appear the same on the screen. (Most style guides now discourage double spaces, and some electronic writing tools, including Wikipedia's software, automatically collapse double spaces to ...

  6. Full stop - Wikipedia

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    In the Ge'ez script that is used to write Amharic and several other Ethiopian and Eritrean languages, the equivalent of the full stop following a sentence is the "ˈarat nettib" (U+1362 ። ETHIOPIC FULL STOP), which means four dots. The two dots on the right are slightly ascending from the two on the left, with space in between.

  7. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    One example: when justification is used in narrow columns, extremely large spaces may appear between words on lines with only two or three words. Another example: when the spaces between words line up approximately above one another in several loose lines, a distracting river of white space may appear. [4]

  8. Customize your Inbox theme, font size and layout in AOL Mail

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    Choose a theme, change your message layout, enable the message preview pane, and select appropriate inbox spacing to customize your Inbox and create the perfect email experience. Select Inbox spacing 1.

  9. Word spacing - Wikipedia

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    In English, the ability to read a line easily, instead of needing to make sense of it first, is also attributed by good word spacing. [8] Word spacing has the ability to express the meaning and idea behind a word, which typographers consider when working on design works and text. [9] With a written piece of text, the designer has to remember to ...