FAQ: Spacing between sentences

Q: When working on documents I currently use two spaces after a full stop and one after a comma – is this incorrect or is it acceptable?

A: Current global best practice is one space across the board – after a full stop (period) and after general in-text punctuation. Contemporary word processing does things so neatly these days, automatically, that we don’t need to apply the old-fashioned typewriter-days rule of two spaces after a full stop.