Typing two spaces after a period, it turns out, is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong.
: There were only 60 subjects , the extra space didn’t affect comprehension, and—perhaps most galling—the researchers used Courier New, the rare monospace font that’s still in use today. No further studies have been done.
Beauty and legibility aside, one space also requires less work, which, as Manjoo pointed out, “isn’t nothing.” At the very least, this means Microsoft is on the side of grammarians, typographers, and efficiency., a math professor at the University of Wisconsin, Slate contributor, and dedicated double-spacer. “The idea that you should change your way of typing because it’s more ‘efficient’ to type one fewer character is profoundly depressing,” Ellenberg wrote me in an email.
Ellenberg may be right about the space being an odd place to try to find a little extra efficiency. But since Slate, like most other magazines, follows the AP Stylebook, I’ve edited out the extra spaces in the above reply to make it, in Manjoo’s words, “simpler, cleaner, and more visually pleasing.” Sorry, Jordan!
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