One space! The answer is one space!

I want to talk about something far more controversial than public health advice in the COVID-19 era, at least to typists of a certain age: number of spaces after a period.

The publishing convention for decades has been one space. The typewriting convention for most of the 20th century was two spaces.

As editors following Chicago style, we are taught to eliminate that extra space silently—which means we don't even have to point it out—that’s how standard one space is.

Today's CMOS ShopTalk by Russell Harper (who was in charge of the past two editions of the Chicago Manual of Style) explains. And offers some tips on search and replace, along with a way to break the habit* of two spaces.

*I won the typing award in high school. I had to break this habit, too, back in the 90s when I first learned about the standard.

https://cmosshoptalk.com/2020/03/24/one-space-or-two/