Double commas, double spaces

(I conducted a search on "double commas" but found no answers to this vexing problem)
This is a funny one. Basically, if I'm typing at normal speeds, I sometimes see double commas and double spaces. It has nothing to do with my key repeat rate, and it's nothing to do with a specific program. To my recollection, it's happened for years, so it's not this OS X install, and it happens at work too. I thought I remembered reading once, long ago, that there was some System setting (might it be in Universal Access?) that would trigger this behavior, but I can find no reference to it now. This is what it looks like:
"If I'm typing at normal speeds, ,I get a lot of double commas. And double spaces."
That is, a comma, a space, and another comma before the next word. The commas are never right next to each other, and to test this I've tried to do the same thing manually, intentionally, but it's actually quite difficult! So I don't think it's my fingers slipping.
Anyway, this clearly isn't a show-stopper, but it's pesky. Clue?

I have a similar problem, where all punctuation (including spaces) double up, but only in certain applications: Safari, Adium (IM client) and Twitterific in particular. [So,, if I type a sentence,, it appears like this.. And a periods double up..] I have had this problem before, and and Archive and Install fixed it. This problem has appeared after an Archive and Install. However, I don't have the same problem in a newly created account. So, I guess the problem lies in something I have installed, perhaps a haxie.

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Double space for period. How about comma, too?

It's already kosher with the interface guidelines to
double space at the end of a sentence to get a
period, so how do I get people on the bandwagon
to make the spacebar a dual- or tri-function spacebar:
double tap for a comma, period, or question mark:
|   ,   |   .   |   ?   | <-----spacebar with
-----------------------           punct zones
Double-tap at the left edge for comma space, double-tap
near the middle for period space, and at the right edge
for question mark space. Why have to go to a separate
screen to type a comman and then come back to the text
keyboard? That's inifficient.
Comma, period, and question mark. That hits most of the major
marks used. Yeah, there's the exclamation point, but the
real estate on the spacebar reliably handles only three
marks. Four may be hard to employ, but I may be wrong.
I suggested this to Apple two years ago, and nothing's
been added to the OS.
Comments?
Doug Parker
Orlando, FL

Firstly, when I said InDesign inflates the space I didn't mean it whacked in a great chunk of space. It just gives a little bit more air relative to the fit of the text around it. You may not always see any noticeable difference. But when I read a book I don't want to see obvious white spaces at the start of every sentence. As long as the full point and following capital letter register on my brain fast enough that I am reading a new sentence, that's good enough for me. I think it makes reading more fluid. If you want to see extra space at the start of a sentence, then it's probably best to carry on with your double spacebar - unless you want to try something more exotic like a fixed width space.
I didn't mean you to literally type <full point><space><any character> into the find. I was just trying to tell you what to input. Type the full point, hit the spacebar, and then use the options list to the right of the find field (shown as a @), select "Wildcards", then select "any character". What you should see in your find field is . ^?
You could then enter . ^?      - that's two spaces. See why I spelled it out as <space>? - into the change to field.
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Double space period please in MAIL App!!!!!

Apple -
Anyone at Apple -
Please please please tell someone to have a double space create a period at the end of sentences.
Switching back and forth between the keysets is maddening.
It's such a simple request... please.

Here's a great workaround tip from David Pogue's website...
Basically, you can type a period with ease if you simply press the ‘.?123’ key, then keep your finger on the screen and just slide it up and over a bit to the period when the numeric keypad appears. Amazingly, this key reacts as soon as your finger touches it (no lifting required), and the numeric keypad will automatically disappear when it does, leaving you right back where you started with the normal keyboard active—and with a period in your document! And instead of multiple taps, it took but one.
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Pages 08 double space

how do you double space in Pages 08 and how do you do 1-inch margins?

Why not search for "spacing" in the Help?
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"carl@csi" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:fgn8sd$bn4$[email protected]..
> For some reason that I don't know about, the majority of
the time that I
> download a PHP or HTML document from the web server to
my local PC the
> document
> gets double spaces injected into each line of code. In
HomeSite there is a
> simple command in the menu to change double spacing to
single spacing.
> Why
> does Dreamweaver not have this, or if it does, then
where is it? I cannot
> spend
> all of my time mannually removing each double spaced
line. I tried the
> search
> and replace for this, but then I loose my tab formatting
and it makes the
> code
> hard to read. Can anybody help or point me to an
extension that works for
> this
> or sdomething? Or, do I just need to reload HomeSite and
work in it
> instead of
> Dreamweaver?
Open the find/replace dialog, and check "Use regular
expressions".
then type the following in the search box
\n\s*\n
and type Ctrl-Enter in the replace box
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Can't double space anymore in TextEdit halp!

I just went to double space my term paper today, and realized, I couldn't!
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I use to be able to do this, along with other things I now can't do! But I have no idea where they went.
Any ideas on how to fix this, so I can double space my documents would be fabulous!

maybe i've posted in the wrong area. I have 10.4.10.
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go to format, then text, then the spacing option is there right above link, list and table, and below show, copy, and paste ruler options.... I KNOW where I'm to go.... but I'm saying, it doesn't give the option to choose spacing....
i kinda want to give up.... but still... I kinda don't! bahhh!!!

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In text replacement (System Preferences > Keyboard > Text), one cannot use a leading space in the Replace column, thus eliminating double-space as a character replacement combination. Depending on the internationality of your keyboard, there may be alternative tandem characters that when configured in the text replacement facility — will offer a full-stop as replacement.
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