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Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
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Re: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
#12It seems that the reason it's wrong is that typographers say it is. The author has not given an actual reason , other than appeal to authority. I will continue to double-space until I'm dead.
It seems that the reason it's wrong is that typographers say it is.[single space]The author has not given an actual reason, other than appeal to authority.
It's a double space. HTML renderers don't display double spaces in the absence of an actual space entity like
Re: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
#13It seems that the reason it's wrong is that typographers say it is. The author has not given an actual reason , other than appeal to authority. I will continue to double-space until I'm dead.
It seems that the reason it's wrong is that typographers say it is.[single space]The author has not given an actual reason, other than appeal to authority.
Right Click -> Inspect says it's two spaces.
HTML ignores extra whitespace.
Re: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
#14One of the first things I do when laying out a publication is to find/replace "__" with "_". It's mainly for the sake of consistency; I always receive documents that have a mix of both.
Re: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
#15HTML removes extra spaces. I used a double space there, but you only see a single space. Since much of what people read these days is HTML, that's going to become what people expect to see, so I expect single spacing to become the standard. I bet that will have more of an effect on changing people's minds than "expert" opinions.
Re: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
#16Years ago, working on GNU documentation, RMS instructed me to use two spaces. The documents were processed into HTML, TeX, Texinfo, and plain text, the former two of which auto-collapsed two spaces into one, and the latter two of which were often viewed with a monospace font, thus benefiting from the extra space.
I carried this practice over into the rest of my writing, although recently I have noticed that some web systems do not auto-collapse two spaces, and when filling out forms online I've generally reverted back to using single spaces to ensure proper spacing.
Re: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
#17Talk about getting worked up over nothing. Must have had a deadline for a column and nothing better to write about.
I use a double space after a period. Always have. I also still use monospaced fonts for almost any composing I do, because I use Emacs whenever possible for that kind of thing.
Any normal text layout software (a browser rendering HTML, TeX) is going to ignore whitespace in the source anyway.
Re: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
#18I guess we've solved all the other world problems?
Re: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
#19He just taught me that I'm supposed to uses two spaces after a period when doing most of my writing.. in programs.. which are still usually viewed with fixed width fonts.
Re: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
#20http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2102892
I wonder why Slate offers their content under two almost identical URL schemes. At least they have a canonical link.