Writing one sentence per line

Re:Writing one sentence per line by earth_walker on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:28PM (#31813021)

I was taught to use double spaces in highschool typing class (we used electric typewriters with the buffer off). In the ~35 years since I have only ever met a handful of people, all older than me, who did it in practice.

I continued through university while using a computer to type things up, I'm pretty sure my thesis had double spaces after periods, written in WP. Once I graduated I dropped it pretty quickly.

Was there an early version of Word's spell-check-on-the-fly that underlined double spaces, or am I miss-remembering?

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Re:Writing one sentence per line by ghaff on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:36PM (#31813130)

>Was there an early version of Word's spell-check-on-the-fly that underlined double spaces, or am I miss-remembering?

I don't remember that and I was a fairly early user of Word going back to DOS days although I rarely use it any longer.

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Re:Writing one sentence per line by earth_walker on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:12PM (#31813621)

Apparently you could set up one or two spaces depending on your preference, however recent versions of Word now mark double spaces as an error by default.

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