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Unread 01-17-2011, 11:18 PM   #1
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Writing One vs. two spaces
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The problem with typewriters was that they used monospaced type—that is, every character occupied an equal amount of horizontal space. This bucked a long tradition of proportional typesetting, in which skinny characters (like I or 1) were given less space than fat ones (like W or M). Monospaced type gives you text that looks "loose" and uneven; there's a lot of white space between characters and words, so it's more difficult to spot the spaces between sentences immediately. Hence the adoption of the two-space rule—on a typewriter, an extra space after a sentence makes text easier to read. Here's the thing, though: Monospaced fonts went out in the 1970s. First electric typewriters and then computers began to offer people ways to create text using proportional fonts. Today nearly every font on your PC is proportional. (Courier is the one major exception.) Because we've all switched to modern fonts, adding two spaces after a period no longer enhances readability, typographers say. It diminishes it.
Every teacher and professor I have ever had have been LYING TO ME?! This is, like, big news. Like, Pluto isn't a planet anymore news. My mind is blown.

Meh, even knowing this I'll still instinctively hit the space bar twice after a period. Our corrupt education system has ingrained this in our skulls. It has become such a part of our being it's worse than trying to quit smoking. Have you tried typing a sentence without double-spacing it? It feels so unnatural. Like I'm skipping a step.
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Unread 01-17-2011, 11:21 PM   #2
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That was never taught to me in school... it was always one space.
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Unread 01-17-2011, 11:21 PM   #3
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I hear you. I'm the same way-(un)fortunately NPF automatically removes the double space for some technical reason I read once but wasn't intrigued enough to commit to memory.
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I double space after every period. It's what I was taught. Also, I like to use Courier font.
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Two spaces 4eva. Give me a one spaced essay, I'll totallly circle the space and make a snarky comment.
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Two spaces 4eva. Give me a one spaced essay, I'll totallly circle the space and make a snarky comment.
Don't you also do this when they're double spaced?
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Unread 01-17-2011, 11:36 PM   #7
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Don't you also do this when they're double spaced?
Shhhh! Don't tell everybody my secrets. Like half of grad school is working out how to be the most passive-aggressive marker possible without the higher ups noticing.
All my posts are double spaced. Notice how beautiful that sentence break is. How soothing.
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Unread 01-17-2011, 11:39 PM   #8
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Default I was taught to add 2, so I still add 2.
I posted about why this happens anywhere on the Internet, Fenris, but I don't currently feel like browsing my own post history. Long story short extra whitespace isn't rendered in browsers unless you force it to be.



e: I just took like 20 minutes and didn't find the thread I was thinking of, and apathy has set in.
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Unread 01-17-2011, 11:27 PM   #9
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Two spaces 4eva. Give me a one spaced essay, I'll totallly circle the space and make a snarky comment.
That's another thing! If I actually adopted the correct way in middle or high school, I'd be penalized for it!
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Unread 01-17-2011, 11:28 PM   #10
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Pretty sure it changed a long while back. I was taught two spaces early on and then the education system deemed it important enough to tell me one space was the new rule.

I also still like certain monospaced fonts because fuck you that's why.
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