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This bit of the article also confused me. Who doesn't double-space after periods? I recognize the historical origin (typewriters), but I was taught this way a
by pkfrank 13y ago
This bit of the article also confused me. Who doesn't double-space after periods? I recognize the historical origin (typewriters), but I was taught this way and I'm "only" 24.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> This bit of the article also confused me. Who doesn't double-space after periods? I don't. Every style guide I've seen has recommended against it in any medium that is going to be presented in non-fixed-width type, and IME its a lot less distracting to have single-space-after-sentence-ending-punctuation in a fixed-width font than double-space-after in a proportional font, so I've pretty much abandoned the practice entirely except in very narrow circumstances (e.g., I'll usually still do it in source code comments.) I think I first started adopting this practice around 1990 (about the same time I was finishing high school.)
- anigbrowl 13y agoI don't. Horrible habit. I wrote a good number of macros to strip the superfluous spaces from text I want to read back in the days of fixed-width fonts. However it's so common that I don't think it's useful as an identifier - miuch better to look for SIPs.
- Crito 13y agoI use double spaces because it is a harmless habit that typesetting systems correct when it isn't appropriate. In fixed-width code, it looks better imho, so I continue to use it there. Since typesetting systems remove it anyway though, there isn't any reason to do it when using them.