I agree with the author, especially since any modern typesetting program should automatically detect a period followed by a space and automatically set the opti

I agree with the author, especially since any modern typesetting program should automatically detect a period followed by a space and automatically set the optimum distance for the particular font being used. My biggest pet peeve is people who insist on putting hard returns after every line of text, thereby creating a huge amount of work for anyone who needs to reformat it.