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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abstraction" data-source="post: 2369431" data-attributes="member: 25995">There is more than one competing standard. However, all the ones quoted say to either not use two spaces, or that it is preferable to not use two spaces. Not one recommends it. So we seem to have unanimity from the style guidelines.By the way, I have seen more than one person get fired from the places I have worked because they thought they could just do things their own way. I myself fired someone a couple months ago because she wouldn't follow guidelines.If you wish to not follow guidelines, feel free. As the previous poster said (very well, too, I might add), if you are writing for a single person audience, then you must follow their guidelines. If you are writing, professionally, for mass market then you should really do yourself a favor and follow professional guidelines to only use one space after a period.I really have done my best to give everyone the historical and design reasons behind why you used to use two spaces and now only use one. There is no contra-argument for using two spaces after a period. It is simply a very old convention that has no purpose but will not die.On a related note, my wife is a biologist. I think you might be able to appreciate that when she teaches a group of students about evolution, which is central to the entire understanding of her coursework, she inevitably gets people who say: eh, it's just opinion. You can imagine how angry that makes her. Her entire schooling and training, built on a long tradition of science, dismissed as mere opinion. That's how I feel when people dismiss typographical and design standards as opinion/preference.</blockquote>

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