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?"

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candidate for lamest Ask Slashdot

[Gothmolly]

This is like asking "I don't like to spell the word 'the', can I spell it 'teh' instead?" A new sentence begins with 2 spaces after the preceding period. It's like, a rule or something.

Slow news day ??

Re:One space

[BitZtream]

So, for 10 years, you've been doing it wrong.

Just because you have done it that way doesn't mean you're right, it just means you've been wrong longer.

You also think capitalizing all words of a title is the right thing as well I'm sure.