Ooooh, Don Park steps in the should-there-be-two-spaces-after-periods-or-only-one? debate. This is a pet peeve of mine. My take: professional typographers NEVER use more than one space anywhere if they are using proportionally-spaced fonts. The two-spaces rule was designed for monospaced fonts (like those on most typewriters) which is why typing teachers always taught you to double space after periods. This is WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG. Here's a decent rundown of the debate. Can you tell I fell strongly about this issue? Oh, and who's the one who really knows this debate? Robin Williams (not the comic, the author). She wrote the "Mac is not a typewriter" book which ends this argument once and for all. Don Park should buy her book (it's since been PC-ized).
[The Scobleizer Weblog]
Huh. I remember when I was learning to write (never mind type) I was taught to put two fingers between the end of a sentence before I started writing the next sentence. One finger between words, two fingers between sentences. And now it all sounds like it is being turned on its head. huh.
