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Standard word spaces were about one-third of an em space, but sentences were to be divided by a full em-space. With the arrival of the typewriter in the late 19th century, style guides for writers began diverging from printer's manuals, indicating that writers should double-space between sentences.
NEW GUY (rob) I just want to say something here. When I was taught to type, the teachers said two spaces after a period and one after a comma. I cannot stand it when people type with only one space separating words. I guess its the way you type though so many people still do it. double spacing after a period is, of course, the correct way to do it.
Another example: when the spaces between words line up approximately above one another in several loose lines, a distracting river of white space may appear. [4] Rivers appear in right-aligned, left-aligned and centered settings too, but are more likely to appear in justified text, because of the additional word spacing.
Word spaces, preceding or following punctuation, should be optically adjusted to appear to be of the same value as a standard word space. If a standard word space is inserted after a full point or a comma, then, optically, this produces a space of up to 50% wider than that of other word spaces within a line of type.
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Without this being set, collapsing strings of spaces to a single space allow HTML source code to be spaced in a more machine-readable way, at the expense of control over the spacing of the rendered page. [4] Double space (English spacing). It is sometimes claimed that this convention stems from the use of the monospaced font on typewriters. [5]
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