Re: Two spaces after a full stop was ::mercy snip::
Which is precisely the point. In the days of typesetting by hand there was only one space after all punctuation. It's just that the one space was of variable size. Typewriters minimised the numbers of keys due to the complexity of mechanical linkages, hence l for 1 and O for 0 etc. Very few had multiple space bars - usually only the typewriters derived from keyboard typesetters. The double space thing was a kludge that produced the same appearance as a typeset document.
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