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Originally Posted by HarryT
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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is possible -- within each line, one or two spaces would still be discernible. It has been done, only it has gone out of fashion -- one example that I happen to know are Burton's 16 volumes of "1001 Nights," you find the scans on
http://www.burtoniana.org/books/1885-Arabian%20Nights/. I've seen it in 19th century German books, too, but in German it is not used even with monospaced/ragged-margin texts nowadays.