09-21-2003, 03:34 PM | #1 |
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The Official "Convince Tom to Single Space After a Period" Thread
Yes, that's right. Tom (aka Zarathustrian) using the old typewriter rule of double spacing after every sentence, and I'm determined to get him to stop! So join in let's put an end to his madness!!!!
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09-21-2003, 03:42 PM | #2 |
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Oh, you.
I'll never stop my double-spacing ways. Truth is, though, I don't think the forum even allows double-spacing after periods. It may look like I'm single-spacing right now, when in fact I'm not. Damn forum.
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09-21-2003, 04:40 PM | #4 |
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I actually find it quite hideous...
j/k It ain't bad. Most times I don't even notice it, except when somebody sends me a word file where they do that. Everytime there's an extra space after the period there come those green squigglies under the word indicating an error Lots of such green things on a page are annoying to look at... |
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09-21-2003, 07:58 PM | #7 |
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I always use double-spaces after periods, although I believe in HTML they are not allowed without inserting extra space characters. As such I cannot condone this anti-double-spacing crusade! Since when is that practice an "old typewriter rule"??
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09-21-2003, 08:56 PM | #8 |
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I've always used double-spaces. My Icelandic teacher once lowered my grade because of that...
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09-21-2003, 09:03 PM | #10 |
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I've never developed this habit. (Well, not really a habit, more like a typing style. Or something.)
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09-21-2003, 11:35 PM | #11 |
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For those interested, this is an exerpt from "The Mac is not a Typewriter", a book I have for a computer science course I'm taking this term:
"On a typewriter, all the characters are monospaced... Because they are monospaced, you need to type two spaces after periods to separate one sentence from the next. But... On a Macintosh/PC the characters are proportional... So you no longer need an extra space to separate the sentences. Yes, this is a difficult habit to break, but it must be done." "The Mac is not a Typewriter" by Robin Williams (not the Robin Williams, mind you)
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09-22-2003, 03:01 AM | #12 |
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I was forced, from a young age, to double space my sentences. Strangely enough, though I still do it reliably and unconsciously when writing in word, I only single space when I'm posting. In any case, the space in most variable width fonts is very thin (as it goes between words, you know), and I don't know of any programs that automatically widen in after a period (this would be wrong, too, as there are other uses for a period), so I say, carry on, good man, in your double spacing ways. That was a long sentence.
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09-22-2003, 03:48 AM | #14 | |
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Now, I'm not saying that, typographically, these things are bad. I'm no typography major. (IOW, I'd say they were bad if I had any authority on the matter, or if I weren't of the sort that forces himself to respect everyone, including maniacal typographists.) I'm just saying that it takes smarter minds to use them than the ones that are typically sat down in front of Microsoft Word, and it takes smarter implementations than Microsoft's half-assed one. *breathes* And (ahem) to you, too.
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Anyhow, that's not the only strange thing about keyboards. Come to think of it, why don't operating systems type in double quotation marks in the first case, since you are more than likely to be needing the second one sooner or later? The same goes with brackets? In 99% of all cases, they come in pairs. |
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09-22-2003, 07:14 AM | #16 |
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Hmmm perhaps they weren't part of the original ANSI / ASCII whateveritis. But that doesn't really answer the question
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09-22-2003, 07:53 AM | #17 |
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Tom only sends me one sentence messages so it's not an issue.
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09-22-2003, 07:58 AM | #18 |
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Thought that was a rhetorical question . Yes. It's because of economy of bits and of hardware. Besides, back then they were too focused on making sure our keyboards had a triangle key. (Source: the ever-present slashdot.)
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