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Spaces between sentences.

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How many spaces between sentences?

  • Single space after period.

  • Double space after period.

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tynopik said:
WordPerfect is still huge in legal circles.

Nuff said
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We still use WordPerfect, but I am working on getting us converted to Word.

We represent other lawyers, they all want to edit our work and they want it all in Word. That is giving me some inertia for the change.

I hope to have the powers-that-be convinced by the summer.

MotionMan
 
Caveman said:
Two is correct formal usage. This started changing about 15 years ago... There is an evolution to one (this is often justified with texting, etc...). You can generally assume that people who "know" that single space is correct are under 40 years old.
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That would explain it. I was taught two-spaces when I learned to type, decades ago. Since then I've gradually had to try and stop doing it 'cos people (and word processors) keep insisting its one-space now (but I can't seem to give up the habit). I have wondered if it has anything to do with the type of font one is using? Is it two spaces for something like courier, but one for proportional fonts, maybe? Anyway, I'm sticking with two, too old to change now.

Besides, the internet is full of people who use no white space at all of any kind and post walls of text with no paragraph breaks, so if some of us didn't use too much space to compensate there would be a cosmic imbalance.
 
tynopik said:
double spacing went out with the typewriter

everyone who claims to have been taught double space is dating themselves
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Double-spacing is alive and well... look at the poll results.

I don't normally date myself anymore since I got married.
 
Caveman said:
Two is correct formal usage. This started changing about 15 years ago... There is an evolution to one (this is often justified with texting, etc...). You can generally assume that people who "know" that single space is correct are under 40 years old.
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This.

And someone should add MultiMate to the list of old word processing software.
 
Double spacing is as necessary in today's world as cursive.

Also, I'm a proofreader by trade, and the very first thing I do when I start work on anything is do a find and replace of all double spaces into single spaces.
 
tynopik said:
WordPerfect is still huge in legal circles.

Nuff said
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Federal courts use WordPerfect. It's a huge pain in the ass when a judge wants you to submit something in WordPerfect as the formatting of what would otherwise be a Word document gets completely thrown off.
 
I can't believe these results.

How many of you guys who voted for double space don't think continents are stationary or think humans breath through gills in the womb?

Or better yet that blood is blue before it "hits the air" or that your thumb isn't a finger?
 
Until this thread, I've never heard of anyone using double space. Just more proof that ATOT can argue about anything.
 
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