{"id":49669,"date":"2026-04-13T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49669"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:34:00","slug":"team-two-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49669","title":{"rendered":"Team Two Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.289291\/gov.uscourts.dcd.289291.28.0.pdf\">Standing Order<\/a> in civil cases issued by Judge Ana Reyes (D.D.C.)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Court is mindful of the raging debate spaces between sentences engenders. <em>See<\/em> James Hamblin, <em>The Scientific Case for Two Spaces After a Period<\/em>, The Atlantic (May 11, 2018). Team Two Spaces champions improved readability and processing speed. <em>See<\/em> Rebecca L. Johnson, et al., <em>Are two spaces better than one? The effect of spacing following periods and commas during reading<\/em>, 80:6 Attention, Perception, &amp; Psychophysics, 1504\u201311 (2018). Team One Space questions the science and notes that two space use is the monospaced font relic of a bygone era. <em>See<\/em> Angela Chen,<em> Please don&#8217;t use this study to justify your horrible habit of using two spaces after periods,<\/em> The Verge (Apr. 28, 2018). Personally finding that one space use makes documents impenetrable, the Court sides squarely with Team Two Spaces.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Moderate that I am, I tend to go with two spaces in e-mails but one space on the blog and in articles and briefs. But I&#8217;m not positive that this is right; and in any event, if I file anything before Judge Reyes, I will of course be using two spaces.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2026\/04\/13\/team-two-spaces\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Standing Order in civil cases issued by Judge Ana Reyes (D.D.C.) The Court is mindful of the raging debate spaces between sentences engenders. See&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}