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The Style manual for authors, editors and printers (6th edn, 2002), [14] sponsored by the Australian Government, stipulates that only one space is used after "sentence-closing punctuation", and that "Programs for word processing and desktop publishing offer more sophisticated, variable spacing, so this practice of double spacing is now avoided ...
A few style guides allow double sentence spacing for draft work, and the Gregg Reference Manual makes room for double and single sentence spacing based on author preferences. [48] Web design guides do not usually provide guidance on this topic, as "HTML refuses to recognize double spaces altogether". [ 49 ]
Edit warring over style, or enforcing optional style in a bot-like fashion without prior consensus, is never acceptable. [b] [d] Unjustified changes from one acceptable, consistently applied style in an article to a different style may generally be reverted. Seek opportunities for commonality to avoid disputes over style.
However, double sentence spacing approximations were retained in some higher-cost printed works. For example, for reasons of readability, the US government's 1959 official style guide mandated double sentence spacing in all government documents—whether produced by “teletypesetter, reproduction or other method”. [19]
Double space (English spacing). It is sometimes claimed that this convention stems from the use of the monospaced font on typewriters . [ 5 ] However, instructions to use more spacing between sentences than words date back centuries, and two spaces on a typewriter was the closest approximation to typesetters' previous rules aimed at improving ...
When reading a PS single-spaced sentence, it can be hard to tell the difference between comma-space and period-space, or period-space (in reference to an acronym) and period-space (in reference to a sentence ending). With period-space-space, you know that it is the next sentence, without any room for confusion. -- SineSwiper 03:35, 10 Feb 2005 ...
The Inbox style setting changes how your messages appear in AOL Mail. This setting is enabled at an account level, which means your preferences will carry over to the desktop site, the mobile site, and the AOL app. The Unified Inbox displays all your emails in one place instead of separate New Mail and Old Mail folders.
Treatment of whitespace in HTML discouraged the practice (in English prose) of putting two full spaces after a full stop, since a single or double space would appear the same on the screen. (Most style guides now discourage double spaces, and some electronic writing tools, including Wikipedia's software, automatically collapse double spaces to ...