[dctoedt]

> Just adjust the size of a space to the appropriate size

That would work IF the rendering engine knew it was supposed to use a horizontally-larger space at the end of a sentence (comparable to the CSS styling element "padding-right"). A uniformly-larger space would defeat the purpose, namely to make it easier to spot the end of the sentence through the extra space after it.

[leni536]

LaTeX renders slightly longer space between sentences by default. You need to put "\ " after a dot that is not an end of a sentence to have a normal space there.

[dctoedt]

Relatively-few lawyers even know what LaTeX is, let alone would be willing to use it for drafting documents for client use.

(At a family reunion a few years ago, I was discussing a book-in-progress with an extended-family member, who at the time was an exec in a very-large Silicon Valley tech company. He was astonished when I mentioned I was using LaTeX, via emacs org-mode, for the manuscript.)

And MS Word is ubiquitously used for contracts and other documents that get circulated for revision, because of Word's redlining- and commenting features. It's a network effect: "Everyone" uses Microsoft Word because "everyone else" uses Microsoft Word.

[bccdee]

Fortunately, Word agrees that two spaces is incorrect. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/24/21234170/microsoft-word-t...