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  2. Sentence spacing in language and style guides - Wikipedia

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    Standard word spaces were about one-third of an em space, but sentences were to be divided by a full em-space. With the arrival of the typewriter in the late 19th century, style guides for writers began diverging from printer's manuals, indicating that writers should double-space between sentences.

  3. Sentence spacing - Wikipedia

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    With the advent of the computer age, typographers began deprecating double spacing, even in monospaced text. In 1989, Desktop Publishing by Design stated that "typesetting requires only one space after periods, question marks, exclamation points, and colons" and identified single sentence spacing as a typographic convention. [33]

  4. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (spaces after a full ...

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    NEW GUY (rob) I just want to say something here. When I was taught to type, the teachers said two spaces after a period and one after a comma. I cannot stand it when people type with only one space separating words. I guess its the way you type though so many people still do it. double spacing after a period is, of course, the correct way to do it.

  5. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    Since there is no added white space built into a typical full stop (period), other than that above the full stop itself, full stops contribute to the river effect in a limited way. At one time, common word-processing software adjusted only the spacing between words, which was a source of the river problem.

  6. Space (punctuation) - Wikipedia

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    One widened space, typically one-and-a-third to slightly less than twice as wide as a word space. This spacing was sometimes used in typesetting before the 19th century. It has also been used in other non-typewriter typesetting systems such as the Linotype machine [18] and the TeX system. [19]

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  8. Sentence spacing in digital media - Wikipedia

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    Computer word processors will allow the user to input as many spaces as desired. Although the default setting for many applications' grammar-checkers (e.g., Microsoft Word) is single sentence spacing, they can be adjusted to recognize double sentence spacing as correct also. A program called PerfectIt is an "MS Word add-in that helps ...

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