19 Oct
2015
19 Oct
'15
11:52 a.m.
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 04:35:07 -0500 Austin English <austinenglish(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I recall hearing this rule in school from some older teachers (use two spaces when starting a new sentence). However, at most some teachers would do it in things that they typed, but it was never a requirement for students, and it is not a common practice in my experience..
I'm old enough to remember it. It goes back to the days of typewriters using monospaced fonts; the purpose was to improve readability by making the breaks between sentences clearer. It died with the advent of personal computers, but a surprising number of people still think it is the rule. -- Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio(a)earthlink.net>