The idea is that the two space rule was instituted due to the typewriter. Before that, per Slate, typographers used only one space after a period. Then whole generations were taught two spaces and now the computer world conspires to automatically shrink two spaces back down to one, including Blogger, which is the engine for this site.
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Tsk. Everyone's losing sight of the real question here: after being taught two spaces for so many years, who can we sue for reparations?I like the two spaces and trick the HTML code to provide you, the reader, with two spaces, for readability. The trick is to add, as I type, an ampersand "&" followed immediately by "nbsp;", which I presume stands for "nonbreaking space".
Regards — Cliff
As ironic as it will appear, coming from someone who continues to write without capitalization (just 'cuz) on his blog, I will, I'm sure, forever maintain a preference for two spaces simply on the premise of the resulting and improved readability. Yes, I learned on a typewriter, and, no, I'm not going to make excuses for being that old. (Which isn't all that old in the grand scheme of things--just ancient in the eyes of my single-spacing computer keyboard jockying children).
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