# What's Up With People Still Double-Spacing After a Period

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 12, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-people-still-double-spacing-after-a-period/492858 "2009-04-12T17:19:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-people-still-double-spacing-after-a-period/492858/82 "2009-04-13T23:50:11Z")

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Obligatory link:

[One space between sentences](http://www.westminster.edu/staff/nak/courses/spaces.htm)

IMHO, two spaces between sentences doesn’t look better or enhance clarity, which is probably why virtually every bit of **typeset** print that everyone here has ever read in their lives only has a single space between sentences. Look at any professionally-produced magazine or book if you don’t believe me.

You only see two spaces in monospaced, typed documents and word-processed documents by people who still think that the modern word processor is a typewriter.

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