2 Spaces!

[Que]

What is the advantage of double spacing? I have never heard of it before. If it has any effect on legibility it would appear to be the wrong one.

Shouldn't an Englishman prefer English spacing to French spacing?

Or is it more a socialist vs national pride sort of thing?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Top down control of your grammar!



Liberal Grammar NAZIism!

 

[kbate]

What is the advantage of double spacing? I have never heard of it before. If it has any effect on legibility it would appear to be the wrong one.

In early typeset, apparently it was the best way to indicate the end of a sentence and the beginning of a new one.123That all ended when modern fonts and type appeared in the late 19th century.

The only reason to retain the double space appears to be tradition.12From the 1930s to 1980s, typing students were taught to use the double space between sentences.1Few if any publishers use more than a single space today.1234Four spaces thou shall not count, excepting that . . .

 

[kbate]

'Highlights of Peter Ustinov's global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800 year old demi-god and a dildo collector.'

I humbly venture that an Oxford comma might have helped there, though I concede its absence adds a little humour.

How familiar are you with Mandela? Greatness has its quirks.

 

[Recidiva]

Top down control of your grammar!



Liberal Grammar NAZIism!

Oh for goodness sake, let's not Godwin's Law this sucker.

Pay me to do one space, I do one space. In...yeah, coming up on 18 years of work editing, I've never been asked to do one space either by Simon and Schuster or the Department of Defense. (I got to transcribe the phone taps for Raj Rajnaratnam, that was fun. "Oh...this guy is going to jaaaaaail...")

I don't fix someone else's grammar unless:

1. It's really funny.
2. Someone pays me.
3. You are my child.
4. For some reason I volunteered to edit someone's stuff. This happens less and less...though I just volunteered two days ago if I'm being honest, because I'm a schmuck and I long for creative friends. Please love me.

 

[Recidiva]

In early typeset, apparently it was the best way to indicate the end of a sentence and the beginning of a new one.123That all ended when modern fonts and type appeared in the late 19th century.

The only reason to retain the double space appears to be tradition.12From the 1930s to 1980s, typing students were taught to use the double space between sentences.1Few if any publishers use more than a single space today.1234Four spaces thou shall not count, excepting that . . .

I was taught the double space in typing class in 1981, which ironically, was the only B I got my freshman year.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Oh for goodness sake, let's not Godwin's Law this sucker.

Pay me to do one space, I do one space. In...yeah, coming up on 18 years of work editing, I've never been asked to do one space either by Simon and Schuster or the Department of Defense. (I got to transcribe the phone taps for Raj Rajnaratnam, that was fun. "Oh...this guy is going to jaaaaaail...")

I don't fix someone else's grammar unless:

1. It's really funny.
2. Someone pays me.
3. You are my child.
4. For some reason I volunteered to edit someone's stuff. This happens less and less...though I just volunteered two days ago if I'm being honest, because I'm a schmuck and I long for creative friends. Please love me.

You do realize that I was referring to Laurel and Manu...

 

[Recidiva]

You do realize that I was referring to Laurel and Manu...

How could I possibly have known that?

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

But only if the hawk quotes properly. Otherwise I make do.

 

[girlsmiley]

I'm tired and a wee bit drunk.12Smells like old nerd in here.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I thought it was monkeys supposed to be doing the typing, but the term hunt and peck suddenly makes sense to me...

 

[Recidiva]

I'm tired and a wee bit drunk.12Smells like old nerd in here.

Oh, open a window.

 

[DesEsseintes]

How familiar are you with Mandela? Greatness has its quirks.

Familiar enough to know that there was little demi about him, aged though he eventually was.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Shouldn't an Englishman prefer English spacing to French spacing?

Or is it more a socialist vs national pride sort of thing?

It's an Occam's Razor thing.

Even nothingness ought not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

 

[Que]

It's an Occam's Razor thing.

Even nothingness ought not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

Oh, but poetry....is contained in the space between the words.