This one was kind of new to me as well, and you are right, it's a hard habit to break. Personally, I don't fret too much about it, I just type as feels natural to me, and if it's something that needs to be turned in all nicely formatted, I search and replace the double spaces with single ones.
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one this was new to! And yeah, you're right, it isn't that big of a deal. And search and replace is a brilliant idea, thanks.
Honestly, who cares? I type two (as taught) but if it comes down to "proportional fonts", let's all admit that we don't know if a font is that way or not by name. Possibly all the basic default fonts ARE, but even so, you do what looks right for the font you have. Here are ten(-ish) random fonts. You can see that some are already widely spaced and some are quite compact. In some, the double space looks wrong, in others the single space is hard to distinguish from a word break.
That's a really great example with all those font examples next to each other, thanks. And you're right, of course it doesn't really matter all that much, in the end the words are the important thing.
The first thing I did was ask my teenagers and they said of course it's only one space why would it be two? I had no idea I was such a formatting dinosaur. Sorry, guess you gotta tell your kid he's right (they loooove that).
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