One vs. two spaces - Page 2

Professor Smarmiarty · 01-17-2011, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Krylo

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.

rpgdemon · 01-17-2011, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bells

screw y'all! Monospace forever rules!

I was never taught this, but also... it' kinda weird in a way, if i was supposed to tap the spacebar twice, why won't writing software come programmed to double the space of one tap...?

If that happened, you'd get double spaces between words.

synkr0nized · 01-17-2011, 11:39 PM

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.

Loyal · 01-17-2011, 11:39 PM

I've never heard of this two-space nonsense and I've never, ever had difficulty locating the end of a sentence (or otherwise reading stuff) in a monospace font. And I goddamn love me some monospace fonts.

synkr0nized · 01-17-2011, 11:42 PM

For reference, how many of you actually ever have used a typewriter? Or how about just early-as-shit word processors (even before Word Perfect on DOS)?

Torque · 01-17-2011, 11:42 PM

2 spaces??? Absurd! Who in their right mind double fucking taps the space bar at the end of a sentence? That's way too much like work. Pfft. And who actually got "taught" typing in school anyway? Shit, when I was in school we still had these things called pencils that everyone was using.
Shit every household had upwards of like.... 10 pencils.
Per person!

synkr0nized · 01-17-2011, 11:43 PM

Speaking of pencils, I never got why people were running around without No. 2s.

Professor Smarmiarty · 01-17-2011, 11:45 PM

I've used a typewriter but more for shits and giggles than serious work. I wrote like a report on one in high school. Best thing ever was it had an erase key which would take back a letter if you hit it fast enough. AMAZING.
Also I had some crazy word processors when I was a young kid on DOS platforms. Mostly I remember they all had ridiculously garish colours.

**McTahr** · 01-17-2011, 11:51 PM

Diddled on a word processor before laptops caught on because I was a young lad with big author dreams. Had a typewriter before that, and I'm not even as ridiculously old as some people.

Both were god awful to use. Especially considering the typewriter lacked that tape-y shit that let you backspace.

Marc v4.0 · 01-18-2011, 12:00 AM

I was never taught or expected to know how to use a..what did you call it?...a typewriter.

Ok, so I did have to use one a few times, but I was never taught by anyone anywhere in the history of my ever EVER to double space, nor do I have some strange condition that makes finding the end of a statement a fucking chore, because by the time I was born they had invented ending punctuations.

01-17-2011, 11:39 PM	#13
synkr0nized synk-ism Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: throughout the Wired Posts: 6,861	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. __________________ Find love.

01-17-2011, 11:42 PM	#15
synkr0nized synk-ism Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: throughout the Wired Posts: 6,861	It makes some sense. For reference, how many of you actually ever have used a typewriter? Or how about just early-as-shit word processors (even before Word Perfect on DOS)? __________________ Find love.

01-17-2011, 11:43 PM	#17
synkr0nized synk-ism Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: throughout the Wired Posts: 6,861	Your numbers are inferior. Speaking of pencils, I never got why people were running around without No. 2s. __________________ Find love.

01-17-2011, 11:51 PM	#19
McTahr For the right price... Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,268	Diddled on a word processor before laptops caught on because I was a young lad with big author dreams. Had a typewriter before that, and I'm not even as ridiculously old as some people. Both were god awful to use. Especially considering the typewriter lacked that tape-y shit that let you backspace. __________________ Gone.

01-18-2011, 12:00 AM	#20
Marc v4.0 Fight Me, Nerds Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 3,470	They don't make anything but No. 2 pencils. It is a scam. I was never taught or expected to know how to use a..what did you call it?...a typewriter. Ok, so I did have to use one a few times, but I was never taught by anyone anywhere in the history of my ever EVER to double space, nor do I have some strange condition that makes finding the end of a statement a fucking chore, because by the time I was born they had invented ending punctuations. __________________

01-17-2011, 11:45 PM	#18
Professor Smarmiarty Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: K-space Posts: 9,758	I've used a typewriter but more for shits and giggles than serious work. I wrote like a report on one in high school. Best thing ever was it had an erase key which would take back a letter if you hit it fast enough. AMAZING. Also I had some crazy word processors when I was a young kid on DOS platforms. Mostly I remember they all had ridiculously garish colours.