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And that convention itself came about as an imitation of common 19th-century typesetting style, where more space after punctuation was still fairly normal. Technological and aesthetic changes--the adoption of Monotype and Linotype machines, and the influence of early book designers like Bruce Rogers--started a trend to more even spacing in typeset printed books.
I'm surprised the article did not show the difference. Here it is: 1 space after period === I’ve written before about the effect of color gradients on reading, and how it goes against the findings of science that our words should be in a single color, usually black and usually on a near-white background, and usually presented in lines of a certain length. This is all a matter of tradition and style, not optimal infor…
TeX/LaTeX attempts to do this, IIRC. I know there are sigils to force that one way or the other when it guesses wrong.
I'm a 2-spacer, being of a certain age and having learned to type in school on an actual typewriter. I'm also heavily invested in the Web, and I get that multiple spaces are folded into 1 on HTML. I still do 2.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Somewhat amused by the "keming" you refer to. I assume it's tongue-in-cheek. :-) Double-space into period is a customizable feature of on-screen keyboards (at least Gboard).
yea that was an intentional typo :)
If you prefer to keep one space instead of two you can use:
set nojoinspacesI'm surprised the article did not show the difference. Here it is: 1 space after period === I’ve written before about the effect of color gradients on reading, and how it goes against the findings of science that our words should be in a single color, usually black and usually on a near-white background, and usually presented in lines of a certain length. This is all a matter of tradition and style, not optimal infor…
> Personally I think the extra space does improve readability. In the way that I read, I find that two spaces here highlights the first word(s) of the sentence, and that makes it much slower for me to parse the meaning of the sentence as a whole. "I've written before about", "This", "This", "It's why I thought", "I", "When I found" - usually I want to skip over these words and get to the meaning: not have them be ide…
"The two-space convention is left over from the days of typewriters." And that convention itself came about as an imitation of common 19th-century typesetting style, where more space after punctuation was still fairly normal. Technological and aesthetic changes--the adoption of Monotype and Linotype machines, and the influence of early book designers like Bruce Rogers--started a trend to more even spacing in typeset…
Two spaces should be a good rule for plain text formats, like Markdown or reStructuredText -- this way the parser can identify sentences and recognize the punctuation that ends an abbreviation vs the one that ends a sentence. (It's not that any parser is doing this currently, as far as I know.)
I'm surprised the article did not show the difference. Here it is: 1 space after period === I’ve written before about the effect of color gradients on reading, and how it goes against the findings of science that our words should be in a single color, usually black and usually on a near-white background, and usually presented in lines of a certain length. This is all a matter of tradition and style, not optimal infor…