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Curious, what are the reasons to prefer one-space-after-period over two? Regardless of old or new medium, proportional or monospaced font, I find it more legib
by nfoz 9y ago
Curious, what are the reasons to prefer one-space-after-period over two? Regardless of old or new medium, proportional or monospaced font, I find it more legible when there's more space between sentences. Sometimes periods find themselves within a sentence (especially in technical writing), so ideally that would have a different markup I guess.
HTML frustrates me; I don't know why it defaults to collapsing spaces, when so often my spaces are intentionally semantic.
- sowbug 9y agoNot that anyone will ever change their mind about this, but here's a good justification of the correct usage. "Two Spaces After a Period: Why You Should Never, Ever Do It": http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/space_invaders.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/...
- monocasa 9y agoAnd here's a great response to that article. "Why two spaces after a period isn’t wrong (or, the lies typographers tell about history)" http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324 http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324
- daeken 9y agoThe reduction of whitespace in HTML is there to allow you to split text as desired in the source file without adding unintentional newlines/tabs/whatever -- it all just gets collapsed to a single space. (Outside of pre-styled tags at least)