07-08-2021, 01:25 PM
(07-08-2021, 01:06 PM)jamshid666 Wrote: I'm still miffed at the APA for getting rid of the double-tap after a period. Seriously, who doesn't send one to the chest and one to the head? Joking aside, I don't get too hung up on formatting, I just download the templates for Word and they seem to do a good enough job to get me through everything I've had to write so far. At least it's worked through my BS and MS degrees, I'll see if I can still get away with it at the doctorate level.
The double space after a period goes back to the day of the typewriter. It went away decades ago because of the way kerning is with fonts on computers. That wasn't just an APA thing. I had to do it in MLA back in high school...wont' say how many decades ago that was. It was universal.
https://slate.com/technology/2011/01/two...do-it.html
This one's funny because it points to our age.
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/two-spaces-after-period/