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One space or two after a period? Get hip!

It is time to drag yourself into the modern era! There is only one space after a period in modern typesetting (word processing.) In the old typewriter days, the characters were placed on the page with mono-spacing. That is why you had to use two spaces to make the sentence look as though it was ended. Now, though, characters are placed on the page by the computer using proportional spacing and the period carries it own extra space to signal the end of a sentence.

Don't believe me....just check out these sources:

http://webword.com/reports/period.html
http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/spaces.html
http://www.mla.org/style/style_faq/style_faq3 Modern Language Association (MLA)
http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/011803.htm
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=112 a short film
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/typespacing/a/onetwospaces.htm

And the hangers-on:
http://roselli.org/adrian/articles/2spaces.asp

if you just can't break the habit, go ahead and do your ol' thing and then FIND/REPLACE the two spaces for one space throughout the document. Fix all those holes that make your document look like Irish lace!