Space After

However the modern language association style center offers different advice and suggests that writers use a single space after a period unless they have been explicitly told otherwise.

Space after. Only one space after a period is modern and proper. Cnn microsoft has made its typographical decree. When three are used space occurs before the first dot and after the final dot. Rule 2 use no spaces on either side of a hyphen.

Using two spaces after a period comes from the old days of using a physical typewriter. Tex typesets an intersentence space after a period unless the period follows a capital letter as in initials or it is instructed otherwise. Those of a certain age learned how to type using a. This is a variable space that is normally wider than an interword space.

Use one space after a period or other punctuation mark at the end of a sentence when writing in apa style. Two spaces between sentences is too many. The space needed after these punctuation marks is proportioned automatically. Microsoft word in the april 2020 update will highlight two spaces after a period as an error and offer a correction of one space.

When four are used the first dot is a true period that is there is no space between it and the preceding word. Spacing after punctuation marks is covered in section 6 1 of the apa publication manual seventh edition. The rigorous method differs from the three or four dot method primarily in it handling of the fourth dot. However if your instructor or non apa publisher has other requirements e g to use two spaces follow their specifications.

But what if you want two spaces after a period. Word war i first world war. Microsoft word will reportedly flag two spaces after the period as a default grammatical error in changes that are supposedly rolling out now. The style choice will now be marked as an error in microsoft word and users who press the space bar.