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"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).
"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]
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]
In the meantime, I grew up typing two spaces after the period, it took me a long time to relearn and type a single space after the period, and I'm not going to retrain myself just to satisfy the needs of one specific text editing program (emacs), which I don't use. (I actually did use emacs for about a year and it made my left hand hurt so ...
Avoid using a hyphen after a standard -ly adverb (a newly available home). A hyphen is not a dash. Hyphens are used within words or to join words, but not in punctuating the parts of a sentence. Use an en dash (–) with before, and a space after – or use an em dash (—) without spaces (see Wikipedia:How to make dashes).
I have two stories from this time period. One night, I snuck out at around 10 pm after my parents had gone to sleep. At around 10:30, I started to get a weird feeling and asked my friend to drive ...
A program called PerfectIt is an "MS Word add-in that helps professionals to proofread faster". The producer states that a feature was added to the most recent version of their program (as of August 2009), "to convert two spaces at the end of a sentence into one", but they have "never had any requests to convert one space into two". [3]
There’s no concrete answer, although one study found that women experience decreased sex drive between ages 55 and 64; another study found that as many as 40 percent of women over 60 have low ...