Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2?

An anonymous reader noted an epic battle is waging, the likes of which has not been seen since we all agreed that tab indenting for code was properly two spaces. He writes "Do you hit the space bar two times between sentences, or only one? I admit, I'm from the typewriter age that hits it twice, but the article has pretty much convinced me to change. My final concern: how will my word processor know the difference between an abbr. and the end of a sentence (so it can stretch the sentence for me)? I don't use a capital letter for certain technical words (even when they start a sentence), making it both harder to programmatically detect a new sentence and more important to do so. What does the Slashdot community think?"

Comments

Obligatory Simpsons:

[Mongoose Disciple]

I've done everything the Bible says - even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!

Re:False assumption

[Gilmoure]

Toenails, on the other hand, never grow at all.