Almost like the regularity of the seasons, the predictability of the tides and eclipses, and the success of the Yankees, someone will ask about the "rules" that govern the use of one or two spaces after the sentence period.

Here is more than you'll want to know. It's a fascinating historical description, and it has as thorough, complete, exhaustive, comprehensive -- did I say thorough? -- a bibliography as I've ever seen!

Enjoy, or just be awed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing


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