The Editing Agenda: One Space or Two?

It's a common question posed quite often in the grammar community: How many spaces should be used after a period? Some will argue that it's always been two and that people simply got lazy with word processing, and others will insist that two spaces are no longer needed. So which is correct? The issue is actually more about formatting than it is a grammar or punctuation one, and it has everything to do with the evolution of word processing and the printing industry. So let’s start at the begi...