"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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If your father is an editor, and assuming he was an editor before we had
desktop computers, ask him this: When you're writing for publication, is
it correct to place *two* spaces after terminal punctuation in a sentence?
Under what circumstances, and why?

Any real editor can answer this.

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Ed Huntress (an editor since 1974)

The instructor for the Governmentese writing class I took at MITRE suggested
two spaces between sentences. In practice anyone who had aquired "Ph.D"
after their name could write any way they wanted.

jsw