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Two spaces are the only civilized option, and I hope the world's numerous, two-space-loving lawyers use their now abundant spare time to lay into MSFT about thi
by sk5t 7y ago
Two spaces are the only civilized option, and I hope the world's numerous, two-space-loving lawyers use their now abundant spare time to lay into MSFT about this.
- copperx 7y agoI believe the software should add wide spaces after periods correctly, and not the user. Two reasons: first, two spaces is too big a separation between sentences. Second, it's really hard to maintain consistency (or ensure that there's consistency) in the use of double spacing without the help of software. It's easy to miss when reviewing. Let the software do this menial task. That's what computers are for, aren't they?
- jlokier 7y agoA wide space after a period is only sensible when the period ends a sentence.
- rjknight 7y agoIt would seem sensible to me that a word processor should treat a double-space as a hint that the preceding period ended a sentence, and a single-space as a (weaker) hint that it did not.
- alok-g 7y agoAs far as the software is able to do this correctly ... it doesn't. (Other comments already cover the rest that I would have said.) :-)
- downerending 7y agoAgree. If this prohibition really takes hold, I will start limiting all of my paragraphs to one sentence. Who's with me?