Sentence spacing
（重定向自French Spacing）
![Widely spaced sentences in typeset text with, at minimum, an em-space between sentences (1909)](/Images/godic/202501/14/German_text_example_-_Em_sentence_spaced_-_19075901.jpg")
![French spaced typeset text (1874)](/Images/godic/202501/14/Example_of_french-spaced_text_-_18745901.jpg")
![Traditional spacing examples from the 1911 Chicago Manual of Style](/Images/godic/202501/14/Traditional_spacing_examples_digitalized_from_the_1911_Chicago_Manual_of_Style5901.png")
Sentence spacing is the horizontal space between sentences in typeset text. It is a matter of typographical convention. Since the introduction of movable-type printing in Europe, various sentence spacing conventions have been used in languages with a Latin alphabet. These include a normal word space (as between the words in a sentence), a single enlarged space, and two full spaces.