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  2. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (spaces after a full ...

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    double spacing after a period is, of course, the correct way to do it. Any one who says it isn't is stupid. I'm talking to you ADDY! I have seen that in many articles there are two spaces after every period of a sentence. I personally can't stand the practice and I remove the extra space.

  3. Sentence spacing in language and style guides - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Sentence spacing - Wikipedia

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    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. This is because these punctuation marks carry space above them, which, when added to the adjacent standard word spaces, combines to create a visually larger space ...

  5. Sentence spacing in digital media - Wikipedia

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    Although the default setting for many applications' grammar-checkers (e.g., Microsoft Word) is single sentence spacing, they can be adjusted to recognize double sentence spacing as correct also. A program called PerfectIt is an "MS Word add-in that helps professionals to proofread faster".

  6. Full stop - Wikipedia

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    There have been a number of practices relating to the spacing after a full stop. Some examples are listed below: One word space ("French spacing"). This is the current convention in most countries that use the ISO basic Latin alphabet for published and final written work, as well as digital media. [48] [49] Two word spaces ("English spacing").

  7. Help:Line-break handling - Wikipedia

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    The non-breaking space works within links exactly like a regular space. Thus you can link to [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] directly and it will render as J. R. R. Tolkien. The initials will not be separated across a line break. However,   renders the source text harder to read and edit. Avoid using it unless it is really necessary to ...

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  9. History of sentence spacing - Wikipedia

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    French spacing is tight spacing with equal word spacing throughout a line, i.e., no extra space after a period, colon, etc. The purpose is not only to create a tighter looking, evenly colored page, but more important, to avoid rivers. In some ad shops, French spacing is understood to mean optically equal word spacing. As to the "French" part of ...