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Prose check: spacing slipsTwo spaces . One too many.
Invisible on screen, obvious in print. Falcontext finds the spacing slips: double spaces, spaces before a comma or full stop, and missing ones after.
Which spacing slips it finds
- Two spaces between words.
- A space before a comma or full stop (“word ,”).
- No space after one (“word,word”).
What it leaves alone
Times (3:15), decimals (3.5), web addresses, abbreviations like U.S. and e.g., and a spaced ellipsis.
How Falcontext checks spacing slips
Guidelines, not rules. Hardly a matter of taste, this one. But ignore any you meant.
- Finds
- Double spaces, spaces before a comma or full stop, and missing spaces after one.
- Traffic light
- None
- 1–5
- 6 or more
- Fix
- Fix all tidies every slip in one go. Not in the desktop app.
You don’t have to wait for the Edit tab: the Write tab catches these in today’s words.
Stray spaces are part of the final polish: pass 5 of the self-editing guide, run on the whole book.
Two spaces after a full stop: were you taught that too?
Questions about spacing slips.
How do I find double spaces in my manuscript?
Falcontext finds them, along with spaces before commas and full stops and missing spaces after them. It’s free, and Fix all removes them in the editors where Fix works.
Will it change spaced ellipses or times?
No. Spaced ellipses, times, decimals, web addresses and abbreviations are left alone.
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