28 Apr
2020
28 Apr
'20
9:04 p.m.
On 28/04/2020, at 12:36, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo(a)geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
From the “Yet Another Subject For A Holy War” Department, Microsoft is planning for the next update to Word to flag two spaces after a full stop and before the next sentence as a typo <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/27/microsoft_roundup/>.
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Where do you stand? Microsoft ran a poll on the question, and it seems the majority favoured a single space.
Two spaces in a formal document, letter, novel. It helps with readability, even with proportional fonts. (It could be argued more so with proportional fonts, as the period no longer has as much space). Caveat - apparently I’m old and cantankerous... Cheers, Warren.