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Two spaces or one?
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The more important question..when coding..tab or spaces? 3 or 4? THAT...is the question..
I'd just like to note that, as far as I can tell, every post in the thread has used just one space between sentences. I wonder if the forum software gets rid of extraneous spaces? I typed this with two spaces between sentences intentionally. But is that how it shows up? If not, what's that tell you?
Let's put this typewriter no longer used excuse to rest. No typewriters in 1776.
Let's put this typewriter no longer used excuse to rest. No typewriters in 1776.
That's force justified to get a clean line on the right side. Spacing is all over the place on this. Not a good example either way.
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I should change my screen name to Resident Curmudgeon. And yes, I just put in two spaces after the period.
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Well the forum software went ahead and corrected it back to one space for you.
Damn autocorrect
Let's put this typewriter no longer used excuse to rest. No typewriters in 1776.
But but but ... typewriter rules came from typesetting rules on printing presses.
Fair enough. Plenty of other ancient hand written documents with two spaces though. Also a few with one space. Seems to be something that some folk have always done correctly (with two spaces
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Fair enough. Plenty of other ancient hand written documents with two spaces though. Also a few with one space. Seems to be something that some folk have always done correctly (with two spaces
Your permission to lecture others on grammar issues has just been rescinded!
Most likely what you are seeing is standard html form submission and/or rendering behavior from the browser.
Fair enough. Plenty of other ancient hand written documents with two spaces though. Also a few with one space. Seems to be something that some folk have always done correctly (with two spaces
Handwriting? Are you talking about the declaration? That was typeset and printed. Handwriting is a free for all, use whatever spacing you want ...
According to this the French have won! Well French spacing anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing
I'm also old enough to have taken typing in junior high school on a manual typewriter. I got pretty fast, and it has served me well to this day. In fact, I maintain that that typing class was the most useful of any of the high school or college classes I took and has given me the most enduring knowledge/skills used daily, bar none. That said, and knowing that two spaces after a dot is correct, I don't do that on computers because it looks just plain odd.
I never actually got beaten by Mrs. Gaydos in junior high typing, but I sure knew to include two spaces after the period. More readable, at least to these old eyes. The single space makes my eyes work harder to recognize the beginnings and ends of sentences.
Totally. Think of the hogwash we learned in grade 9...and then there's typing. I took it as a throw-in elective..my buddy wanted to..man, glad I listened..
Wow, never knew this was an argument people have.
Definitely explains why I often find myself deleting extra spaces from documents ::cough:: older ::cough:: people in my office create.
Definitely explains why I often find myself deleting extra spaces from documents ::cough:: older ::cough:: people in my office create.
I have taken to using a sentence on each line for some nitwits at work.
If I write in paragraph form, they get confused and don't seem to understand the message.
Having line by line points seems to simplify it for them and there is less uncertainty.
What do you think?
If I write in paragraph form, they get confused and don't seem to understand the message.
Having line by line points seems to simplify it for them and there is less uncertainty.
What do you think?
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That was very clear to me.Sometimes you just have to try something different.Who knows if it will work or not?If you find that it doesn't work,you can always go back to doing it the other way.That's the point of experimenting after all.Maybe people who like two spaces should try one for a while,and perhaps they'll find that it works just fine.Although it does sound like it's a habit for a lot of people.
That was very clear to me.Sometimes you just have to try something different.Who knows if it will work or not?If you find that it doesn't work,you can always go back to doing it the other way.That's the point of experimenting after all.Maybe people who like two spaces should try one for a while,and perhaps they'll find that it works just fine.Although it does sound like it's a habit for a lot of people.
Yeah, you're talking like we have a choice. We've been WATERBOARDED people!!!! TWO SPACES!!!!!!