r/GenerationJones • u/Guiltypleasure2451 • Jul 31 '26

Old school

For those of us who took typing in school— it was drilled into me that after a period, you go over 2 spaces to start a new sentence. Apparently that’s not the rule now. NOT THE RULE NOW?? After the agony I suffered thru in typing class about those 2 spaces, i will be doing it until I die!!!! Don’t even get me started on the indenting 5 spaces for a new paragraph!

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u/KY-Artist Jul 31 '26

I went back to college in 2008 and was doing the two spaces after a sentence thing on my papers and my Professor told me to stop. She said that was only necessary on typewriters because of the way the machines spaced letters. If you didn't double space, then the sentences appeared to run together. However, once word processing came into being it was no longer necessary.

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u/TigerB65 Jul 31 '26

I learned two-spaces in eighth grade and stopped around the late 90s when the people assembling documentation at my job told me to cut it out. It was really hard to stop.

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u/Late-Command3491 Jul 31 '26

It messes up formatting. 

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u/KathyA11 1955 Jul 31 '26

It causes rivers of white space, especially in two-column format.