How many spaces after the period? One or two?

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited November 2011
    Anybody remember the poster who put a space at the end of the sentence, before the period, or other punctuation ? And then started the next sentence like this . I guess you could say he/she/it used two periods .
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  • DollarDave
    DollarDave Posts: 2,575
    edited November 2011
    Pycroft wrote: »
    ... I turned in my final thesis - 128 pages, and my advisor gave it back and said that there had to be one space after each period. I went back and took about 3 hours redoing every sentence for 128 pages so it only had one space. Now, I only use one space to keep myself from further trouble. ...

    Doesn't your word processor have a search and replace? My guess is that edit should have taken about 12 seconds + print time...

    In my humble opinion, two spaces are proper in business and one space is cutting corners. If someone is cutting corners in their correspondence with me, I consider that when evaluating their input.

    A more important question is whether or not someone puts a comma prior to the last item in a list. Having graduated from HS prior to 1985, I always place a comma where those post 1985 grads consider it redundant. I guess that is much like always placing parenthesis around equations and such in source code when it is inherently interpreted by the compiler that way.
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  • falconcry72
    falconcry72 Posts: 3,580
    edited November 2011
    DaveMuell wrote: »
    ...A more important question is whether or not someone puts a comma prior to the last item in a list. Having graduated from HS prior to 1985, I always place a comma where those post 1985 grads consider it redundant...

    I graduated HS in '02, and I learned that you can do it either way. I tend to opt for the last comma; it just feels right. See that semicolon there? I enjoy a correctly-wielded semicolon; it can be an effective tool.:biggrin:
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited November 2011
    My law school required two spaces after every period for any paper to be handed in for grading.
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  • drselect
    drselect Posts: 664
    edited November 2011
    Justthinkofhowmuchcomputermemorycouldbesavedbyleavingallthespacesoutandallthepunctuation
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  • drselect
    drselect Posts: 664
    edited November 2011
    dangitthecomuteractuallyputaspaceinforme
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  • DollarDave
    DollarDave Posts: 2,575
    edited November 2011
    drselect wrote: »
    Justthinkofhowmuchcomputermemorycouldbesavedbyleavingallthespacesoutandallthepunctuation

    Actually, most databases compress data so you save virtually nothing.
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  • BeefJerky
    BeefJerky Posts: 1,320
    edited November 2011 
    I prefer 42 spaces after the period.                                          Also, semicolons are awesome when used properly.                                          I also think that the word "cattywampus" is underused.
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  • drselect
    drselect Posts: 664
    edited November 2011
    DaveMuell wrote: »
    Actually, most databases compress data so you save virtually nothing.

    rusayinguwouldsavemoretimethanspace?
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  • Timothy Smith
    Timothy Smith Posts: 764
    edited November 2011
    falconcry72 wrote: »
    Damn. One a month is too many for me...


    I agree. Always leave a lot of space around whoever is having a period.
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  • fatchowmein
    fatchowmein Posts: 2,637
    edited November 2011
    falconcry72 wrote: »
    but what does 14.121 say!?!?!?!??!?!?!?

    It didn't pertain to our discussion but since you asked for it...
    Documentation I: Notes and Bibliography
    Multivolume Works
    14.121 Volume numbers and page numbers.
    In documentation, volume numbers are always given in arabic numerals, even if in the original work they appear in roman numberals or are spelled out. If the volume number is immediately followed by a page number, the abbreviation vol. is omitted and a colon separates the volume number from the page number with no intervening spaces. See the examples throughout this section.
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  • bernardo
    bernardo Posts: 120
    edited November 2011
    DaveMuell wrote: »
    In my humble opinion, two spaces are proper in business and one space is cutting corners. If someone is cutting corners in their correspondence with me, I consider that when evaluating their input.
    I know it is you opinion and I respect that, but I fail to understand why you would consider it cutting corners when there are well respected style guides that indicate otherwise.

    IMO, it is quite possible that the use of a single space was a well researched and educated decision an you would be penalizing it, when other person might just use 2 spaces without even understanding why.

    How is someone supposed to know what your style guide is?
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