http://jameskahn.net/blog/2007/10/18/full-stop-capital-letter/ IT, life, gym and ... whatever Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:00:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://jameskahn.net/blog/2007/10/18/full-stop-capital-letter/#comment-53 Dan Halford Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:56:34 +0000 http://jameskahn.net/blog/2007/10/18/full-stop-capital-letter/#comment-53 Wrong, my friend. Comma, one space. Full stop, one space. It's a basic typographical rule that originates from the first ever linotype machine which came with a style guide that said you should use a space bar and a thin space after a full stop. The two-spaces rule then got interpreted by typists on typewriters, but modern word processing packages use proportional fonts. The space left after a full stop, by pressing the space bar once, is larger than that used left between words. With proportional fonts (i.e. everythign other than Courier) it ends up leaving big blobs of white space all over the the text. You'll find that modern typographers and book designers all use just one space. Wrong, my friend. Comma, one space. Full stop, one space. It’s a basic typographical rule that originates from the first ever linotype machine which came with a style guide that said you should use a space bar and a thin space after a full stop. The two-spaces rule then got interpreted by typists on typewriters, but modern word processing packages use proportional fonts. The space left after a full stop, by pressing the space bar once, is larger than that used left between words. With proportional fonts (i.e. everythign other than Courier) it ends up leaving big blobs of white space all over the the text. You’ll find that modern typographers and book designers all use just one space.

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