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"Space Invaders: Why You Should Never, Ever Use Two Spaces After a Period". Slate. McArdle, Megan (14 January 2011). "You Can Have My Double Space When You Pry it From My Cold, Dead Hands". The Atlantic. Okrent, Arika (2 October 2013). "How Many Spaces Should There Be at the End of a Sentence?". Mental Floss. Rhodes, John S. (13 May 1999).
"Additional space at the ends of sentences is called 'French Spacing.' It is a very old practice, having been commonplace in books up through the 19th century" [7] "Adding two spaces after a period is called French spacing. French spacing was quite common in books before the 19th century. Later it became the norm for typewritten copy." [8]
"How many spaces should I leave after a period or other concluding mark of punctuation?". Modern Language Association. Archived from the original on 12 October 2006; Rhodes, John S. (13 May 1999). "One Versus Two Spaces After a Period". WebWord.com. Archived from the original on 9 March 2010; The Times (2010).
In writing, a space is a blank area that separates words, sentences, syllables (in syllabification) and other written or printed glyphs (characters). Conventions for spacing vary among languages, and in some languages the spacing rules are complex.
A sentence is written without spaces and a space is typically used to mark the end of a clause or sentence. Tibetic The Tibetan script uses two different full stops: tshig-grub ( U+0F0D ། TIBETAN MARK SHAD ) marks the end of a section of text, while the don-tshan ( U+0F0E ༎ TIBETAN MARK NYIS SHAD ) is used to mark the end of a whole topic.
I typed two spaces after every period on punch cards, on paper tape, in FØRTRAN comments, in SNOBOL comments, in C comments, in every computer context that wasn't going to be parsed by machine. I typed two spaces after every period in TECO, in RUNOFF, in Word-11, in AppleWriter, in WordStar.
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Two Spaces after Colon (and Period) is completely and utterly wrong: Using two spaces was a typewriter substitution for long spaces. This substitution was widely used in english speaking countries in former times. It was debateable even then and under that special circumstances.