I learned how to type way back in high school—on a typewriter. For as long as I’ve been typing, I’ve always pressed the spacebar twice after a period. Still do.

Well I learned from some colleagues today that was a typewriter-only rule. Ever since the digital age the standard has been only one space after a period; the reason being that typewriters couldn’t sense if it was the end of a sentence, so you had to place another space in. So all this time, I’ve been doing it wrong.

Oh, and here’s the funny part—remember Fran from Department of Finance, the one who’s personal joy was to find my faults and errors??? She was always on my case if I didn’t have two spaces at the end of a sentence. HA! That shows her. — er, yeah.

Anyway, so there’s a tidbit of trivial information for ya. Only one space after a sentence—it’s a universal design rule. And yet… I still put two spaces (just take a look at the source code).

I guess old habits die hard.

September 26, 2005, 2:07 pm

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