Two spaces or one?

[Monique]

Pretty sure I explained this upthread, but anyway, it's not the forum software - it's fundamental to the way HTML presentation works. White space is white space. You can experiment with this by writing a very simple HTML file with a few sentences. Try putting 1 space; try putting 100. It will look the same.

Oops - meant to further explain - you don't need a web server for this. You can just "File-> Open file" and navigate to the foo.html file you created.

 

[Don in Morrison]

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The first line has ten spaces between the smilies. The second has five underscores.

 

[Mothertucker]

Pretty sure I explained this upthread, but anyway, it's not the forum software - it's fundamental to the way HTML presentation works. White space is white space. You can experiment with this by writing a very simple HTML file with a few sentences. Try putting 1 space; try putting 100. It will look the same.

I tried to double space post #2 in this thread. When it and the edit failed, the old curmudgeon in me said, " Ahh #&(#/@+ it!"

 

[JeffB]

I nominate this thread as Exhibit A on the list of crap skiers argue about online in May.

Anyone read a good Helmet - Pros & Cons thread lately?

 

[scott43]

I nominate this thread as Exhibit A on the list of crap skiers argue about online in May.

Anyone read a good Helmet - Pros & Cons thread lately?

Is it M.I.P.S.? Or MIPS??

 

[Seldomski]

Skiers use 2. Snowboarders use 1.

 

[Chris Walker]

Saved by HTML. If I had to look at the ghastly layout of double-spaced sentences, I swear I'd quit the Internet. Nine spaces between each of these sentences, BTW.

@Seldomski, I laughed out loud, but alas, I've never been on a snowboard (is it snowboard or snow board), and I know the correct answer is 1, unless you are using a typewriter.

 

[Dadskier]

 

[Dwight]

The more important question..when coding..tab or spaces? 3 or 4? THAT...is the question..

Wrong forum

 

[Monique]

The more important question..when coding..tab or spaces? 3 or 4? THAT...is the question..

OMG.

I believe general agreement is that tabs would be great so that everyone could choose their own tab stop ... but no one can seem to do them consistently, so we have to use spaces.

Also yaml will barf if you don't use two-space indent. So there's that.

Totally on topic because it's spring.

 

[SBrown]

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Or, " I don't always [blah blah] ... But I don't have to, because I put two spaces after a period."

 

[Tony S]

But wait. There's more. All you people talking about double spacing and single spacing: You should remember, from the typewriter days that we now all know you experienced, that these terms refer to spaces between lines, not between sentences - i.e., how many times you hit the carriage return lever (which also rolled the platen to the next line).

 

[newboots]

We need a curmudgeon club.

I'm in!

Two spaces! Go, curmudgeons!

 

[newboots]

I nominate this thread as Exhibit A on the list of crap skiers argue about online in May.

This is bad, but it's much better than just Not Skiing.

 

[Phelmut]

Well you can't teach an old dog new tricks. And when i was in school I was always one to do as little as possible, so 2 spaces between each sentence made my essays look longer. That is assuming I even turned one in

 

[Tony S]

Pretty sure I explained this upthread, but anyway, it's not the forum software - it's fundamental to the way HTML presentation works.

So did I. It doesn't matter. Facts are so tiresome.

 

[Jim McDonald]

It's well-known that 87% of people will make up facts to prove their point.

 

[dbostedo]

It's well-known that 87% of people will make up facts to prove their point.

Maybe... but 40% of all statistics are wrong.

 

[Jim McDonald]

Yes, but as the immortal Homer tells us, "Some people will use facts to prove anything!"

 

[David Chaus]

And now, the (ahem) correct quote:

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer Simpson