Two Spaces or One?

[Japher]

Do use two spaces after a period, when typing, or one?

I've always been taught to do two. However, some people use one, and this gets real annoying when you are working on a report together.

[DaShi]

I used to use two. However, since grad school, where most of my papers have page limits, I have switched to one to conserve some space.

[onodera]

I've always been taught to use one everywhere. Even bloody MS Word asks, "do you want me to remove that extra space you put there by mistake?".

[Donegeal]

Two spaces after the punctuation at the end of a sentence. Anything else is just texting crap. (u nob)

[Dauphin]

I usually put one. Work style says use two, but I don't see the point when work style also wants text to be justified.

Ultimately, I don't care.

[BeBMan]

Using two spaces is evil - fact!

[DinoDoc]

Listen to the man. He's German.

[Lorizael]

Putting two spaces after a period is a relic from the days of typewriters and is no longer the norm in today's writing styles.

[BeBMan]

Listen to the man.

Always good advice

[Krill]

1 space.Really we shouldn't use any,as the extra space wastes paper.

[BeBMan]

1space.Reallyweshouldn'tuseany,astheextraspacewast espaper.

[Dauphin]

Just cos you Germans like to merge all your words into one like Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän.

[BeBMan]

But size matters. We can easily have the biggest...words that way.

[-Jrabbit]

Technically, either is acceptable.

But if you're getting paid for your writing (trade journals, magazines, Web, etc.), the universal standard is one space.

[Dauphin]

BeBro, the Welsh beat you at that, and they don't even bother with consonants.