hsrob said:
alekth said:
Wow, I just had to google that and some people in a convo on wikipedia say they were taught to put two spaces as late as 1990. Personally I never encountered that (I've seen people consistently not leaving a space quite a few times, but never consistently two).
Was that practiced only in typewriter typing, or also in books? I should check at my parents' place tomorrow, the oldest printed book at my place is from 1966 and definitely only has one space after a full stop.
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Wasn't it necessary to get automatic capitalisation at the start of the next sentence in earlier versions of MS Word/Works?
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Seriously no idea, never used Word that much (and I disable automatic capitalisation now, used to doing it myself).
Anyway, there seem to be a wiki page on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing, confirms my suspicion that it was about the font. Maybe monospace is more legible with two spaces but ugh... googled some typed stuff in it and telling sentences apart seemed just fine with one space as well.
Guess in the end it's something that only people who went to typing classes were taught, and maybe sometimes still are.
