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Yeah I believe this is a generational thing. I learned double-space as well, but pretty sure not long after me they stopped teaching that, and I've totally stop
by kadoban 4y ago
Yeah I believe this is a generational thing. I learned double-space as well, but pretty sure not long after me they stopped teaching that, and I've totally stopped doing it.
- ghaff 4y agoDouble spaces was the norm on (almost always monospaced font) typewriters [EDIT: in English]. I assume it lingered on computers until sometime in the 80s but was shifting especially once proportional fonts for written material (other than things like code of course) became the norm. I couldn't tell you when I switched.
- earth_walker 4y agoI was taught to use double spaces in highschool typing class (we used electric typewriters with the buffer off). In the ~35 years since I have only ever met a handful of people, all older than me, who did it in practice. I continued through university while using a computer to type things up, I'm pretty sure my thesis had double spaces after periods, written in WP. Once I graduated I dropped it pretty quickly. Was there an early version of Word's spell-check-on-the-fly that underlined double spaces, or am I miss-remembering?
- ghaff 4y ago>Was there an early version of Word's spell-check-on-the-fly that underlined double spaces, or am I miss-remembering? I don't remember that and I was a fairly early user of Word going back to DOS days although I rarely use it any longer.
- earth_walker 4y agoApparently you could set up one or two spaces depending on your preference, however recent versions of Word now mark double spaces as an error by default.
- usr1106 4y agoDouble spaces was the norm for English. I understand it is considered mostly obsolete nowadays. It has not been the norm for German ever. Edit: Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22975299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22975299