3 ms·
> One space after sentences. Two spaces is heresy! I was loving it up til this point.
by MarkusQ 6y ago
> One space after sentences. Two spaces is heresy!
I was loving it up til this point.
- bananamerica 6y agoNowadays the two spaces thing seems to be a peculiarity of English and is not prevalent even in this language. Non native speakers may find it odd. They may be considering that. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing
- perl4ever 6y agoI find it weird that this is controversial in 2020. In the mid-80s when I first used a Macintosh, it seemed like two spaces had been swept into the dustbin of history, along with monospace fonts and non-WYSIWYG word processing. Then again, I tried emacs[1] for the Amiga around then, and was bewildered at why anybody would bother with such an obviously obsolete editor on a modern computer, and yet here we are. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fish
- _emacsomancer_ 6y agoThe best thing is to use a smart typesetter (i.e. TeX) that'll do the right thing (one-and-half spaces; or French spacing; or presumably whatever else you specify) however many spaces you have between sentences. (Two spaces after a sentence [in TeX source] has the advantage of distinguishing between sentences and other places where a full stop might appear, such as in abbreviations.)