One more post about French spacing (I promise this is the last one. No, really.)

In response to my post about French spacing (the practice of inserting two spaces after each sentence), my friend and former colleague Brad Parker e-mailed me a collection of links about the topic:

• Writer and webmaster Ashley Pond lists French spacing as a "layout mistake."
• Allan Haley writes that French spacing,  "[c]ommon in books before the 19th century, it became the norm for copy written with a typewriter. French spacing is now unnecessary and distracting— one space after a period is plenty."
• Finally, this link-laden page of the All Experts Encyclopedia explains the origins of the practice and of the term "French spacing."