Timeline for When did punctuation marks lose their associated spaces?
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| Jul 22, 2022 at 9:33 | comment | added | Brandin | In handwriting I never remember being taught anything specific or explicit about spacing. In typing class in the 1990s, U.S., we first learned to leave two spaces after the full stop if it is used to end a sentence. After abbreviations, one space was to be used, and in between abbreviations, no spaces were to be used. For example, in "U.S.A.", there is one space after "A." and no spaces elsewhere. Nowadays I rarely or never follow the two-space rule for sentences. | |
| Jun 26, 2022 at 21:17 | comment | added | David | This was never taught in school in Britain during the 60s, or, I imagine, at any time previously. But that is not the point — typography and handwriting are two different things. | |
| Jun 15, 2022 at 13:15 | comment | added | Besserwisser | Nor I , in six decades . Now all the sheeple are leaving spaces everywhere ! | |
| Jun 15, 2022 at 6:00 | history | answered | TrexxæByte | CC BY-SA 4.0 |