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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. Space (punctuation) - Wikipedia

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    Without this being set, collapsing strings of spaces to a single space allow HTML source code to be spaced in a more machine-readable way, at the expense of control over the spacing of the rendered page. [4] Double space (English spacing). It is sometimes claimed that this convention stems from the use of the monospaced font on typewriters. [5]

  5. APA style - Wikipedia

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    APA style (also known as APA format) is a writing style and format for academic documents such as scholarly journal articles and books. It is commonly used for citing sources within the field of behavioral and social sciences , including sociology, education, nursing, criminal justice, anthropology, and psychology.

  6. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    justified—text is aligned along the left margin, with letter-spacing and word-spacing adjusted so that the text falls flush with both margins, also known as fully justified or full justification; centered—text is aligned to neither the left nor right margin; there is an even gap on each side of each line.

  7. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Use italics when writing about words as words, or letters as letters (to indicate the use–mention distinction). Examples: The term panning is derived from panorama, which was coined in 1787. Deuce means 'two'. (Linguistic glosses go in single quotation marks.) The most common letter in English is e.

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

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    The main rule to follow is that period ends a sentence if it's followed by whitespace and a capital letter. Most internal periods aren't followed by space and a capital letter. Abigail 12:05, May 18, 2004 (UTC) Except that the most common usage of internal spaces, titles such as Mr. Smith, are always followed by a space and a capital letter...

  9. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Put text in correct font wc/ww: word choice/wrong word: Incorrect or awkward word choice hr # Insert hair space: s/b: should be: Selection should be whatever edit follows this mark s/r: substitute/replace: Make the substitution tr: transpose: Transpose the two words selected vf: verb form (Mostly used when translating) The version of the verb ...