One of the things that bothers me whenever I read and/or edit a manuscript, or any text at all, is when the author doesn't use two spaces after a full stop, or end of a sentence. That goes for colons, too. When did the standard change to a single space? Why?
Hmm... now that I think about it, maybe I was taught to put two spaces after full stops and colons in typing class. Typing was an elective in high school, so perhaps most students weren't taught the correct spacing. Then when word processing software became more mainstream in school the sheer number of students using single spacing became the norm. Sad, if true.
I think Microsoft Word would do the world -- okay, me -- a lot of good if they made a tool/option to automatically add two spaces after each full stop in a document. Perhaps in the grammar checker or something.
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