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GP: > Good typography seems to dictate a wider space after a sentence than between words. You: > Rendering engines can do anything they want. The question is
by jhardy54 4y ago
GP:
> Good typography seems to dictate a wider space after a sentence than between words.
You:
> Rendering engines can do anything they want. The question is about source representation only, for semantic purposes.
The thread you’ve commented on is literally about rendering, not source representation and semantics. I agree that you can use a double-space as a sentence delimiter, but we’re currently discussing whether it’s “good typography” to render it that way.
- harshreality 4y agoYour reply cited Butterick which doesn't distinguish the two issues. Every "authority" I've seen strongly admonish against the use of two spaces fails to make this distinction. Which is why I emphasized it. I don't think there's much dispute that two spaces is too much in modern properly rendered prose, so I don't know who "we" is. (And anyone who does think two word spaces is just fine, would probably also agree that it should be configurable and not dependent on two spaces in the source text.) If there's a text renderer out there that renders two spaces as two word spaces in prose, that should be patched, not writers' brains.