Thursday, September 24, 2015

2 spaces after a period, or one?

Now, I'm not much of a writer.  If you follow this blog, that much is probably apparent.  Also, I'm pretty old, and us old people usually started typing on typewriters, or something that outputted paper, like a word processor.

Anyway, when I started typing, typewriters just made one size character, whether you were typing "iiiiiiiiiiiiii" or "eeeeeeeeeeeeee" they came out the same width on the paper. Now, in order to make reading easier, and give more weight to sentence termination, we were taught to put two spaces after every period.

Some habits are just hard to break.

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