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Old 03-13-2015, 05:09 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by RobertDDL View Post
You haven't appalled me, but the two spaces after full stops do when they appear in a text I read on the screen. I think it's for a good reason that enlarged spaces between sentences are not used in printed texts anymore. Absolutely not!
The primary reason is simply that they only make sense with monospaced fonts and ragged-right justification - ie, typewritten manuscripts. When you have proportional fonts, and full justification which can add arbitrary amounts of space after any word, it's not possible to tell what's a single and what's a double space.
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