I dont care what anybody says about not putting 2 spaces after a period. I know it makes me old, but it makes documenrs so much easier to read.
By the way, I’m 65, still working 45 hour weeks and can spend all day and into the wee hours working on railway signal systems, so don’t you dare call me an old fuddy-duddy!
And on the subject of Lotus 1-2-3, my first work computer was a IBM PC Jr. 1-2-3 was the only program, so I wrote a macro that turned it into a word processor. I know what I’m doing.
The rule about two spaces after a period is still in play if you are working with a monospaced typeface such as courier or consolas. The editor was working in Times Roman, so even if you put in the spaces, the word processor would tend to undo your work. Also, in the book publishing business, we don’t have rge luxury of indulging in personal preferences, especially if the work winds up going ti typesetting who would have yo undo it all in QuarkXpress.