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I don't think I've ever known anyone who uses two spaces.
by corin_ 16y ago
I don't think I've ever known anyone who uses two spaces.
- kbutler 16y agoIf you learned to type on a typewriter, you probably do. If you do a lot of work in monospace fonts (like many computer programmers), two spaces continues to improve the visual appearance. But overall, I give this issue a definite "meh." Anybody want to make a browser addon that removes double spaces after a period, or adds them, according to a user preference setting? kb
- nkurz 16y agoIt's the traditional American typewriter standard, which carried over into some text editors: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sentences.html http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sen...
- beej71 16y agoI used to be newsletter editor for our local caving club, and two-spacers abounded with submitted material. I do it myself, but I also use the excuse that most of the stuff I type is in fixed-pitch fonts, where I actually want there to be two spaces. Plus I learned to type on a typewriter and old habits really do die hard. But when I made the newsletter, I search-and-replaced them all to a single space. And I'm pleased HTML renders it properly no matter what. That way I can keep my two spaces when editing HTML in vim, but still see the correct rendering.