As both a hacker and a hack writer, I follow William Shunn's manuscript format: http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html "

As both a hacker and a hack writer, I follow William Shunn's manuscript format: http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html "In the days of typewriters, the usual practice was to put two spaces after the end of every sentence, and also to put two spaces after every colon. This helped make the separations between sentences more apparent, and helped editors more easily distinguish periods from commas and colons from semicolons. With the dominance of computers, that practice is changing, and it is more common now to see only one space between sentences. "Ingrained habits die hard, though, so if you're used to hitting the spacebar twice after a period, you shouldn't stress out about it, particularly if you're using a Courier font."