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One or two spaces after a period? How about three?

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Re: One or two spaces after a period? How about three?

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I’d always heard it was to try to minimize rivers in text. I don’t see that mentioned. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)

They don't mention it here, but I think they might on a different post? Rivers are going to show up more in a monospace font (which your link points out), so that would make sense. With modern fonts it makes sense to be putting the spaces in after a sentence stops for readability though. Microsoft word allows for manipulating spacing anywhere there are still rivers.