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Is 2 spaces after a period the standard for legal writing?
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:39 PM Author: Red maniacal stead corn cake (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647324) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:40 PM Author: comical misanthropic parlor milk I thought it was the standard for everythign? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647329) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:41 PM Author: Red maniacal stead corn cake Apparently, it isn't. In fact, I see one space most places. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647345) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:44 PM Author: comical misanthropic parlor milk I always use two because that's what we were taught in typing class. One space after comma, two after period. I assumed it was like this for all types of formal writing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647372) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 5:18 AM Author: Navy Striped Hyena Spot This is what I thought. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3650913) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:40 PM Author: Onyx wonderful dragon Depends on the professor/partner. I always use 2, unless told otherwise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647333) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:41 PM Author: Red maniacal stead corn cake Everywhere? Or just for legal writing? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647346) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:14 PM Author: Jet voyeur Yes. Formal papers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648729) |
Date: August 21st, 2005 6:42 PM Author: Cyan Swashbuckling Locus Toaster I'm sorry. Are you using a TYPEWRITER? Didn't think so. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647353) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:51 PM Author: Razzle Water Buffalo It seems like the correct way should either be two spaces or either one or two spaces, but not one space. Too many people have two spaces ingrained. |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:13 PM Author: boyish dog poop pistol wtf are you talking about? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648277) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:17 PM Author: Ebony irate antidepressant drug alpha my head just exploded. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648301) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 6:53 PM Author: Lascivious principal's office Is there a BLUEBOOK or ALWD rule on this? Anyone know? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647420) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 7:10 PM Author: Translucent Geriatric Nowag No bluebook or ALWD as far as I know. also never seen court rules that say one or two. two is fine for everything, including legal writing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647488) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:54 PM Author: Milky Autistic Step-uncle's House Nibblets Most legal writing classes encourage using a style manual along with the Bluebook. As far as I know, all the style manuals say two spaces after a period. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648570) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 7:53 AM Author: mauve reading party range This is wrong. The most commonly used style manual in legal writing is the Chicago Manual. While it doesn't have a rule one way or the other, the CMOS uses one space after a period, which suggests that you should too. Oh, and the Bluebook does too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3650973) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 7:53 PM Author: sapphire excitant fat ankles 1 is, per the BB and the CMS. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647746) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 7:54 PM Author: Red maniacal stead corn cake Where in the BB? I assume BB = Bluebook. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647756) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 7:57 PM Author: sapphire excitant fat ankles Yea. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647771) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 7:54 AM Author: mauve reading party range On EVERY PAGE of the BB.
Seriously. Open it. Look for a period. See how many spaces are after the period. There's your answer. |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 8:21 PM Author: Mahogany goyim background story Why would you use two spaces? Every word processing program from the last 20 years has intelligent spacing built-in. Hit the spacebar one, unless you're using a typewriter or you've been asked specifically to make the document look like strange. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647925) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 8:23 PM Author: Useless cerise stage 2 spaces is not unheard of. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647934) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 8:25 PM Author: Mahogany goyim background story I've seen people use it and it always looks terrible. It's a holdover from the typewriter days -- some people don't realize it's not necessary on computer word processors. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3647944) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 8:25 PM Author: comical misanthropic parlor milk Okay, in my job, at a big NYC bank, when we wrote up contracts for our clients, I KNOW we used 2 spaces.
I didn't know people didn't use 2 spaces. As I said above, this is what we were specifically taught in typing class (on a computer, not a typewriter). |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:12 PM Author: Razzle Water Buffalo I'm sure there are times where a period doesn't indicate the end of a sentence and two spaces would get rid of that ambiguity. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648267) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:17 PM Author: galvanic burgundy trump supporter church kill youself for asking this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648294) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:23 PM Author: Red maniacal stead corn cake I decline to. But if I were you, I would definitely off myself. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648349) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:27 PM Author: passionate blathering macaca Word gives you a little green squiggle if you don't use two spaces. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648383) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:39 PM Author: hyperventilating french hominid keepsake machete No, it only does that if you have it set to require two spaces. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648450) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:40 PM Author: comical misanthropic parlor milk I didn't set my Word that way, and it requires two spaces. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648458) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:41 PM Author: hyperventilating french hominid keepsake machete It may not come standard, but you can set it to require one space and it will give you a green squiggle if there are two. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648471) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:41 PM Author: passionate blathering macaca Its the default. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648470) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:43 PM Author: hyperventilating french hominid keepsake machete Yeah, but that doesn't mean it's mandatory. If you fiddle with the settings, it asks specifically if you want one space or two. I have it set for one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648486) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:47 PM Author: glittery aggressive puppy Your comment made me laugh. That would be funny if MSWord mandated things like this. "If you want to use our program you must always use two spaces after a period and you must never begin a sentence with but or because." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648521) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:49 PM Author: hyperventilating french hominid keepsake machete Yeah, but I took the original post on this subject to be an argument for two spaces after periods. I'm just saying that you can easily set the program to do something else, so it proves nothing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648534) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:51 PM Author: glittery aggressive puppy No, no, I didn't mean you did anything wrong. I agreed with your post. I just thought it raised a very funny point and I thought maybe you had done it on purpose. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648543) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:53 PM Author: hyperventilating french hominid keepsake machete Okay, I misinterpreted your post. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648562) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:53 PM Author: glittery aggressive puppy Why are you shivering? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648564) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:55 PM Author: Milky Autistic Step-uncle's House Nibblets It's set that way be default. Indeed, it only *doesn't* do that if you change the settings. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648578) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:41 PM Author: glittery aggressive puppy That is a holdover from when people first switched to word processing software. People were too confused by the apparently sudden need to only space once. You can fix it in your spelling & grammar options, the same place you can choose whether to have a comma before the and in a list (i.e. a bat, a ball, and a glove). I found out about this earlier in the summer and after researching it online, one space appears to be the rule for all normal documents unless, of course, you are actually typing them on a typewriter. As for the contracts at the NYC bank, contracts are sometimes different from normal documents. On the other hand, there is an element of preference. Some people always use full-justified and some people always use left-justified, which is correct? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648474) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:42 PM Author: submissive provocative juggernaut deer antler Two spaces after the period has always been standard and is standard for legal writing. HOWEVER, all word processing programs make the space slightly larger after a period, which was intended to eliminate the need to add an extra space. HOWEVER, people were so used to adding two spaces that the practice is still common, which has made the "correct" way to do it impossible to determine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648477) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:43 PM Author: glittery aggressive puppy agreed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648482) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:42 PM Author: cobalt talented church building wagecucks I'm used to it, so I still do it. If I had to, it'd be a lot easier to turn all the double spaces into single ones than the other way around. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648479) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:10 PM Author: Mahogany goyim background story I'm surprised so many people seem to adhere to this outdated convention, yet nobody ever uses two spaces on here. If there really was a "right" way to it or a difference in legibility, why wouldn't people use two spaces in everything they wrote? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648685) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 11:44 PM Author: cobalt talented church building wagecucks Um, HTML displays multiple spaces as just one space. In fact I just used two spaces after that last period. You can see this if you view the source HTML for this page. I'm also not the only person who did this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649461) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 11:45 PM Author: Tripping buff cruise ship stain it's not possible to use 2 spaces on here, so you wouldn't notice even if people were typing them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649466) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 9:47 PM Author: Hairraiser Yarmulke Classic thread on this topic:
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=26343&mc=121&forum_id=2 |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:12 PM Author: Lascivious principal's office What the fuck so there is no standard? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648708) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:13 PM Author: Ebony irate antidepressant drug alpha nope. Old school texts even have like 5 spaces sometimes. Its weird. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648719) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:14 PM Author: glittery aggressive puppy My menu at Ruth's Chris had at least four spaces between sentences. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648722) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:15 PM Author: Lascivious principal's office Do the 2 spaces in between my two front teeth count? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648737) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:15 PM Author: Ebony irate antidepressant drug alpha I have this old version of Don Quixote from like the 40's. Sometimes there will be like 6 spaces inbetween sentences. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648745) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:17 PM Author: Jet voyeur Does any one use the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (5th/6th edition)? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648762) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 10:18 PM Author: Lascivious principal's office Not I. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3648770) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 11:41 PM Author: Flushed thriller shrine foreskin Apparently, neither do you use a grammar book. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649424) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 11:42 PM Author: chartreuse unhinged death wish telephone Apparently, you do not use grammar books either.
tootles. |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 11:43 PM Author: Flushed thriller shrine foreskin That's true; I don't.
But my sentence looks all right to me. |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 11:47 PM Author: chartreuse unhinged death wish telephone Your sentence was worse than his. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649487) |
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Date: August 21st, 2005 11:51 PM Author: Flushed thriller shrine foreskin My sentence looks all right to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649521) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 12:00 AM Author: chartreuse unhinged death wish telephone Keep telling yourself that until you believe it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649578) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 12:03 AM Author: Flushed thriller shrine foreskin I believe it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649597) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 12:16 AM Author: Laughsome rebellious tattoo codepig I read in some prominent place (perhaps the Chicago Manual of Style) that one space is appropriate. Two spaces harken back to the days of typewriters. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649676) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 12:17 AM Author: Flushed thriller shrine foreskin It's pretty clear that most print and electronic media use at most one full space. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3649680) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 6:47 AM Author: thirsty aqua locale The Michigan Law Review only uses one space. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3650955) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 7:55 AM Author: mauve reading party range Almost all good law reviews use only one space. This is because almost all professional publications and presses use only one space. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3650975) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 8:04 AM Author: Charismatic hilarious hall haunted graveyard I thought you clerked in CA. It's 5AM there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3650979) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2005 8:23 AM Author: Big wrinkle Subject: wow, it's been hammered into my head for at least 10 years for two spaces. i've gone back into documents and added spaces to mine and even others while editing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=244569&forum_id=2#3650984) |