It's like a bad dream that keeps coming back. I see it everywhere, from professionals across the country and the world, that little extra gap between sentences that tells me the writer is unaware. It's haunting and painful to see, to contemplate, particularly because so much of my work is for individuals in a technical field. So everywhere I can, I spread the word. Every six months or so, for years now. But never here. My bad, as they say.

I don't need to write anything new on this topic. It has plenty of ranters around the web, along with holdouts who best I can tell fear both change and technology. Slate says it best in the article, "Space Invaders." An excerpt:

When I pointed out that they were doing it wrong—that, in fact, the correct way to end a sentence is with a period followed by a single, proud, beautiful space—[they] balked. "Who says two spaces is wrong?" they wanted to know.

Typographers, that's who. The people who study and design the typewritten word decided long ago that we should use one space, not two, between sentences. That convention was not arrived at casually...

Consider breaking old habits. Try new things. Get up on technology. Cheers.