After your periods, do you

[yvr girl]

Poll question: After your periods, do you

use one space or two?

[arwalden]

1. Switch Back To Thin Panty Liners?

[redqueen]

2. I tried to stick with two for the longest time.

I finally got 'corrected' one too many times... might as well start saying nukular, now.

[arwalden]

3. Two spaces are used on manual typewriters with monospaced characters...

... when the proportional-spaced letters of the IMB-selectric and word processors became more common, the double space after a period became less common.

I think.

If I'm wrong, surely someone will correct me.

-- Allen

[hlthe2b]

7. I think you are right Allen, I tried to continue once word processors

replaced typing, but they correct you, so I've finally stopped.

[yvr girl]

26. I'm still old school

It pleases me esthetically.

[Love Bug]

4. It depends.

Use one space if using a proportional font, two if using a fixed.

[Debbi801]

5. I'm a technical writer...

We used to use 2 spaces. Once we started putting more and more documentation on the web, we switched to only one space. During doc conversion, one of the spaces was being eliminated, anyway. I still find myself occasionally using 2, but it always gets edited back to one.

Debbi

[redqueen]

8. I did some time as a Tech Writer, as well.

We never switched.

:shrug:

[madison2000]

6. I say thank God that's over

[bleedingheart]

9. I take two young pigeons to the temple for sacrifice....

:evilgrin:

[flamingyouth]

22. You beat me to it

:evilfrown: ;)

[JVS]

10. Two spaces. Unless I need the space to make the subject line as really big

Like I just did

[kick-ass-bob]

11. One! One! One!

Finally. I hated having to have 2 spaces in there - because I always forgot somewhere in what I was typing.

[DS1]

12. I'm trying to get into the habit of one. Two was taught most of the way

through my schoolyears, but any typography book will tell you one is the correct amount.

[Ellen Forradalom]

15. It's a difference of convention

between a fixed-space typewritten manuscript and a typeset document. Nowadays most word processors produce documents mimicking typesetting, so two spaces are less necessary for readability.

I learned the habit of typing two spaces so long ago (I had a boss in the mid-80s who insisted on it) that I can't unlearn it now.

[Ellen Forradalom]

13. ....visit the mikvah?

Orthodox Jewish women who observe taharat ha-mishpachah (family purity laws) immerse themselves in a mikvah (ritual pool) at a certain time after their periods. I suppose that's also inserting space, but in a different sense of the word.

[bleedingheart]

14. Question....do they also remove themselves from family life

until it is over?

[Ellen Forradalom]

16. They abstain from marital relations

but do not withdraw from the family altogether. I'm not an Orthodox Jew, however, so I don't know the details of Jewish law concerning this. (I'm a gentile learning about Judaism in a class at our synagogue.)

[Adams Wulff]

17. ...have hot flashes and night sweats.

oh, and the mood swings! My God, the mood swings!!

At least that's what the women in my life do.

[gollygee]

18. Glad I'm not the only one who thought this was about menstruation

but I voted for 2.

[all.of.me]

19. haven't had a period in almost two years....

....i've replaced them with hotflashes!

[MrModerate]

20. One, dammit! A computer is not a typewriter (R)

[LynneSin]

21. Usually a hot steaming bubble bath & Midol solves the issue after periods

:shrug:

[texas1928]

23. I don't need to know what you do after

Fingers in ears, BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH, I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!!

[mr blur]

24. One - that's what I used to teach, anyway (nt)

[Wapsie B]

25. If men could have periods

hysterectomies would be mandatory.