Do you use two spaces after a period?

[Anonymous]

Try it. You'll be surprised by how quickly the extra space starts to seem like a total waste of energy. How foolish we were all those years. Get green, people.

[Anonymous]

I have always, and will always, use double spacing. It's the way I learned and I agree with a PP who said it helps break things up. Interestingly enough, I just looked at random books, newspapers, and magazines in my living room, and half are double spaced.

[Anonymous]

Lawyers double space. Economists single space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Try it. You'll be surprised by how quickly the extra space starts to seem like a total waste of energy. How foolish we were all those years. Get green, people.

Greener? Most of us don't use paper much.

[Anonymous]

As long as professors require page counts rather than word counts, there will be two-spacers in the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:19:42 again, I'm typing on an iPad so sorry for the spacing errors. In addition to using the Century family of fonts, I'd also like to see people turning on the kerning function in Word.

What is kerning?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Try it. You'll be surprised by how quickly the extra space starts to seem like a total waste of energy. How foolish we were all those years. Get green, people.

Greener? Most of us don't use paper much.

Think she meant to economize by using one instead of two spaces.

[Anonymous]

I am in graduate school now and the current APA guidelines (American Psychological Asssn) require a double space after a period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do, because of how I learned to type. But for years I havebeen using the find and replace feature to change my two spaces to one. My other pet peeve, using Times New Roman font. It is too small for everyday documents. It was designed for the London Times newspaper back when printing was very expensive. Please, everyone, change over and use the Century font.

OMG I HATE Times New Roman too! All of my colleagues tease me about it regularly..."Oh we know you'll change the font because it's Times New Roman!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lawyers double space. Economists single space.

This economist double spaces. (OK, I did get your joke, too!) I type so fast that hitting the space bar twice with my thumb doesn't make things slower, in fact it provides a sort of mental break as I type. A pause before I launch into the next sentence.

But I read that if you submit a novel/book proposal to a publisher, they will not accept double spaces.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:19:42 again, I'm typing on an iPad so sorry for the spacing errors. In addition to using the Century family of fonts, I'd also like to see people turning on the kerning function in Word.

What is kerning?

When you look at the text in this post, you will notice that the there is the same amount of space between each letter. With proportional fonts that equal spacing is no longer needed. Kerning puts certain letters closer together so that overall the text is easier to read. If you look in magazines and books, you can often notice that when the letters AV appear next to each other they are closer together than what you see here. You also can notice it when a T and comma are together. Instead of it appearing like this T, the comma will be almost under the cross of the T.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 43, took a typing class in 1985, and use two spaces. I'm not going to change, and I write for a living.

I took typing in high school in 1988. Two spaces is a rule from typing that still holds. There is no reason to change it.

[Anonymous]

I do sometimes at the mall if I'm still in a really bad mood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do sometimes at the mall if I'm still in a really bad mood.

Wrong thread? I hope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do sometimes at the mall if I'm still in a really bad mood.

Wrong thread? I hope.

Humor perhaps.