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Two. I always do it. >_> 'tis how I was told to do it in my computer class.

I've always put two spaces after a period. I don't remember where or when I learned that to be the correct way, but by now it's so ingrained in me that I don't even think about it.

My English teacher never said that O_o. I've always used one space, it just seems to work better.

I always use two. I think it looks better, and I wish it would let my extra space show up online. **glares** I remember the first time I ever hear that rule, it was during my first real keyboarding class in grade school.

I never knew you had to use 2 spaces.. :?
Well, you learn new things every day

I use one. Probably because I've always been taught like that. However, I seem to pick up people's habits over the internet, so I'll probably end up double spacing in a couple of years XD

Same here, I've never been taught that I had to leave 2 spaces (then again I've never taken a typing class). It looks weird to me to leave two spaces, it feels like I left a big empty gap...

I tend to use two spaces after the period. At one point I did only use one space but I went back to old habits.

I think it's easier to type one space after the period and you have less rules to remember. I'm quite interested to learn that this is a leftover from typewriters though, simply because I find it quite an interesting fact.

Personally I really don't mind if I use single or double spacing but I pretend to myself (like I did when I was tiny and first learned this) that I'm more professional and grown-up. I figure this is just one of those "development" things that happen. English is an ever-changing language and this is probably going to be one of them. In a generation or two it'll be all one spacing after the period.

It's like the speech marks thing. In writing I was taught to do them in the shape of 66 and 99, but now I write them more like //. In typing most people show speech through 'single marks like these' whereas it used to be "double marks like these". Anyone who RPs regularly with me may have noticed a switch in speech marks by me - back to old habits yet again. There's something quaint in being old school that attracts me.

Plus I always wanted a typewriter. I think I'll invest in one when I grow up and go clickaty-clack on them. I'll probably waste a whole bunch of paper from making mistakes and not backspacing, or being able to. I ought to practice better typing more - I rely on the backspace too much.

What are monospace fonts, vermilion?

We have an electric typewriter somewhere. The belts made for deleting are darn expensive to replace.

I've always put one space after a full stop O.o I hardly remember rule about two spaces. Ok, I'd forgotten

I always use two spaces. We learned it in like...fourth grade, I remember the first time I had to type up a paper in that grade, and got chatised for using one space, I had to go back and do two spaces. That was quite traumatizing at the time - I was such a wimp.

But yeah, two spaces. I also indent paragraphs, because my english teacher goes insane if we do the space inbetween paragraph thing.

We have 2 manual typewriters. No deleting, so it's tipp-ex all the way on those babies

I always go one space. Two spaces looks like it's too far.

Same thing for me. As I said before, I was taught to use two spaces. Yet, me, being the rebellious chick that I am (Yeah, right! ) I only use one space. I just never thought using two spaces looked right to me.

Eh... It depends what font you're using, I find. Some fonts would make it so that two spaces is eternity, while wiith others, two is a fraction of a centmetre.