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Even on typewriters double spaces has been an English thing. In German it has never existed. And I have never noticed that it would have been difficult in readi
by usr1106 7y ago
Even on typewriters double spaces has been an English thing. In German it has never existed. And I have never noticed that it would have been difficult in reading typewritten German text because one wouldn't see where the sentences end. But then some English speakers might joke that in German you note the end of the sentence by finally hitting the last verb.
French punctuation looks weird to me, because they do require a space before and after every punctuation mark that consists of two parts (question mark, exclamation mark, French double quotes (guillemets) etc). Haven't heard that they would have ever required 2 spaces in a row, though.
No idea about Spanish and other big languages.
- wirrbel 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:German_text_example_-_Em_sentence_spaced_-_1907.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:German_text_example_-_Em_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Example_of_french-spaced_text_(1874).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Example_of_french-spaced_...
- usr1106 7y agoQuoting from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing > French typists used a single space between sentences, consistent with the typeset French spacing technique, whereas English typists used a double space. Edit: add full reference