| Comment | Chicago is your friend and helper in such matters. It even clarifies the matter twice:
2.12: line spacing and word spacing A single character space, not two spaces, should be left after periods at the ends of sentences (both in manuscripts and in final, published form) and after colons.
6.11 space between sentences In typeset matter, one space, not two (in other words, a regular word space), follows any mark of punctuation that ends a sentence, whether a period, a colon, a question mark, an exclamation point, or closing quotation marks.
The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., 2003.
Anybody preparing a document for publication should generally use the search/replace function to eliminate double-spacing, whether intentional or unintentional, unless the client or house style specifically dictates otherwise. |
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