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Originally Posted by notcasesensitive
Once I started into graphic design, I was converted into a single-spacer. Designers are just as certain, as a profession, that the rule is one space as lawyers are that it is two. I see Icky's point with respect to legal writing, but in most other contexts, one space flows better and reads better. And no ugly rivers in text!
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Typesetters are right about their rule because often their text is set in a narrow column where those rivers might appear. A brief has an unbroken 6.5 inch span of text on each line. The rule for typewriting class makes sense in its context, too. No one anticipated Internet text boxes. Good thing they invented find-and-replace 15 years before they invented AOL.
