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Exactly Like english or any written language, generally books are typesetted against a bunch of general conventions. You dont choose if you get one or two space
by makapuf 6y ago
Exactly Like english or any written language, generally books are typesetted against a bunch of general conventions. You dont choose if you get one or two spaces after a semicolon. Your book is not great because you wrote it in leetcase, you focus on the meaning, not the details.
- musingsole 6y agoYou really do get to choose if you want 1 or 2 spaces or whatever formatting you want. Certain publishing houses might have style guides that they follow strictly and others less so, but all this just makes the formatting for a book a perfect metaphor to formatting code.
- tharkun__ 6y agoYou don't. The consistency is within the same book (or maybe publisher). A book would look ridiculous if every paragraph was using a different number of spaces after punctuation. But between two books its just personal preference whether you agree with the choice the author/publisher made.