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> but nobody seems to care one way or the other. Typographers do! Double-space is OK for monospace fonts, but otherwise single-space is almost universally pref
by nollidge 14y ago
> but nobody seems to care one way or the other.
Typographers do! Double-space is OK for monospace fonts, but otherwise single-space is almost universally preferred for avoiding so-called "rivers" of whitespace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing_in_language_and_style_guides http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing_in_language_an...
- einhverfr 14y agoIndeed. I'd point out that LaTeX does kerning independent of number of spaces after a period. I usually put two spaces when I type because I do a lot with monochrome fonts including all my LaTeX sources, but really, it is no substitute for proper kerning.
- blahedo 14y ago> I'd point out that LaTeX does kerning independent of number of spaces after a period. This is misleading. Yes, LaTeX ignores how many spaces you put after the period in the source; but it does lay out extra space after sentence-ending characters. To avoid the extra space (e.g. if you have a mid-sentence abbreviation) you have to backslash it!