[michaelcampbell]

> I would advocate that the extra spacing should be handled at presentation time. Not as part of the content itself.

TeX/LaTeX attempts to do this, IIRC. I know there are sigils to force that one way or the other when it guesses wrong.

I'm a 2-spacer, being of a certain age and having learned to type in school on an actual typewriter. I'm also heavily invested in the Web, and I get that multiple spaces are folded into 1 on HTML. I still do 2.

[at_a_remove]

I had a grudging and bitter period, decades back when writing a lot of HTML, of putting a non-breaking space after a regular space finishing a sentence, just so I could get that extra space visible. I finally folded on that one.

[JKCalhoun]

> I'm a 2-spacer, being of a certain age and having learned to type in school on an actual typewriter.

Yes, from posts with double-spaces I can usually tell that the author is over a certain age (I would put them at baby-boomer or near baby-boomer).

I am guilty of having been taught that way when taking Typing class in school as well.

I have since dropped it though since we no longer live in a monospace world (I know, I hear you saying, "Speak for yourself," but I am excepting coding).

[michaelcampbell]

I'm fine with proportionally spaced fonts when not coding. I'm also in love with extra space at the end of sentences; HTML based displays took the easy way out, there.