Get Ready. One Spacers, Unite!

The end of the bloodless reign of Two-Spaces-After-a-Period is nearing...as those who were taught the "correct" way die out.

It is time.

In the old days of typewriters using only monospaced fonts in which a period occupied as much horizontal space as any other letter, it was standard to double-space after each one to clearly separate out each sentence from the following one. However, when justified variable-width type is set for printing It has always been standard to use only one space between sentences. Modern computers produce type that is more like print, and most modern styles call for only one space after a period. This is especially
important if you are preparing a text for publication which will be laid out from your electronic copy.

The big boys are on our side: Chicago Manual of Style FAQ. And, of course, the heroic AP Stylebook Ask the Editor (Norm Goldstein, who signed my copy of the AP Stylebook because I'm a journalist).

As it should be,
T.
an Investigative Reporter