Anything more than a single space between sentences was too much. They couldn’t get used to seeing just one space after a period. Letters of uniform width looked cramped without extra space after the period. The major reason to use two spaces, the researchers wrote, was to make the reading process smoother, not faster. Johnson told Lifehacker that she and her co-authors submitted the paper with two spaces after each period — as was proper.

Source: thestar May 05, 2018 21:47 UTC