Timeline for Where and when did the practice of using two spaces in the beginning of each sentence start, and is it still recommended?
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 22:45 | comment | added | Tim D | @Juhasz, indeed. Neverthless, and presence or lack of evidence for the claim notwithstanding, sentence-spacing on typewriters is the reason given when I was taught to type, and that's the rationale given by people I have discussed it with. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 22:43 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @Juhasz Quite so. But the typesetter had a variety of blanks at his disposal which he selected to satisfy his eye. (You can achieve the same effect in word-processed documents if you want to take the trouble.) The typewriter had only one space, of fixed size. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 21:41 | comment | added | Juhasz | The claim that double sentence spacing was introduced to accommodate typewriters is widespread, but sources making the claim often seem to offer little evidence that this is true. Check out, for example, this Wikipedia article, or the CMOS's claim that "In the era when type was set by hand, it was common to use extra space (sometimes quite a bit of it) after periods."One Space or Two? | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 21:37 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | Oh, the bygone age of Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge Systems ... | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 21:35 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | Yes, because it's more expensive! | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 20:27 | history | edited | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 20:20 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |