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<blockquote data-quote="Abstraction" data-source="post: 2369169" data-attributes="member: 25995">The MLA is hardly the authority. Person reads it, types it how they like, then submits it to a prepress professional. First thing prepress professional does? Universal search-and-replace for two spaces to one. Several other universal searches, too.The authority in the design world is the Chicago Manual of Style. It was the Bible at the last advertising agency I worked at. It was referenced before, but I will post it again:<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.html" target="_blank">http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.html</a>So, to summarize, all the available references about whether you can use two spaces after a period say one of two things. Either &quot;Don't do it,&quot; or &quot;Try not to do it.&quot; So please stop saying that it's all just a matter of taste. It's all a matter of having taste.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Abstraction, post: 2369169, member: 25995"] The MLA is hardly the authority. Person reads it, types it how they like, then submits it to a prepress professional. First thing prepress professional does? Universal search-and-replace for two spaces to one. Several other universal searches, too. The authority in the design world is the Chicago Manual of Style. It was the Bible at the last advertising agency I worked at. It was referenced before, but I will post it again: [url]http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.html[/url] So, to summarize, all the available references about whether you can use two spaces after a period say one of two things. Either "Don't do it," or "Try not to do it." So please [i]stop[/i] saying that it's all just a matter of taste. It's all a matter of having taste. [/QUOTE]

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