One space or two after a full-stop?

[MrMark]

We need someone with typesetting/dtp knowledge to shed some light. I suspect that it's meant to be only one space, but a wider "space" character than is normally used in between words. Is it an em space?

[expat]

I was taught "two spaces after a full stop, one after a comma", but it's all too rare these days that I find anyone else who adds two spaces after a full stop.

So here I am looking at a document and wondering if to start adding extra spaces...




while (!dead) printf("I honestly love my job ");

Two on a typewriter, one on a computer.

[Xenophon]

One. Two is Dickensian.

You'll be using traveller's cheques next...

[Spacecadet]

three

I used to use 3 spaces when typing on the old archimides computer at school

[Bob Dalek]

The big question is: space or no space before an ellipsis ... ?

[expat]

The big question is: space or no space before an ellipsis ... ?

space before a colon, or not : depends on the language.

[TheFaQQer]

Two spaces after a full stop (or an em-dash if you prefer, which is about 1.5 spaces IIRC).

One space after a comma, unless the next character is a quotation mark, i.e. at the end of speech.

No space before a colon in English, but one afterwards.

No space before a semi-colon in English, but one afterwards.

HTH.

[Platypus]

Two spaces after a full stop (or an em-dash if you prefer, which is about 1.5 spaces IIRC).

One space after a comma, unless the next character is a quotation mark, i.e. at the end of speech.

No space before a colon in English, but one afterwards.

No space before a semi-colon in English, but one afterwards.

HTH.

Yep, that's what I think too

[Platypus]

The big question is: space or no space before an ellipsis ... ?

Oi! Start your own thread!

[Beefy198]

Just the one. Though "back in the day" my mum used to use a typewriter and was always taught two.