One or two spaces after a period?

[Numenorean]

yeah, so you came from a shitty school system.

sorry, about your lazy-ass teachers enforcing a system that went extinct 4 decades ago.

What if I went to high school 5 decades ago?

 

[OutHouse]

yeah, so you came from a shitty school system.

sorry, about your lazy-ass teachers enforcing a system that went extinct 4 decades ago.

I was taught 2 and god help you if you did not have 2. I think you are the lazy one, 2 spaces is more work. Congrats on being a slob.

 

[stargazr]

One

 

[KeithTalent]

I was taught 2 and god help you if you did not have 2. I think you are the lazy one, 2 spaces is more work. Congrats on being a slob.

Yeah, two-spacers represent! Fuck you zin! :awe:

KT

 

[dighn]

Yeah, two-spacers represent! Fuck you zin! :awe:

KT

I'm not seeing two spaces. Liar.

 

[CPA]

What fuck are some of you talking about? It's TWO, always been TWO and should be TWO. If I'm looking at resumes and you used one space after a period, your shit's in the can. Stop being lazy.

 

[MotF Bane]

I was taught two spaces until college, and now it is a habit that I have no cause to change, unless I've written too much and must shorten a paper.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

What if I went to high school 5 decades ago?

Then you're an old geezer?

 

[TecHNooB]

What fuck are some of you talking about? It's TWO, always been TWO and should be TWO. If I'm looking at resumes and you used one space after a period, your shit's in the can. Stop being lazy.

wow

 

[CPA]

the forum software normalizes double spaces to single spaces. that tells you something yeah?

Let's see. Testing (double space)
Second Test. Testing (single space)

edit: motherfucker, it does. Who's responsible for this shit!

 

[CPA]

wow

I'm hardcore like that.

 

[dighn]

Let's see. Testing (double space)
Second Test. Testing (single space)

edit: motherfucker, it does. Who's responsible for this shit!

in fact, this is a feature of HTML itself. the almighty intarweb has spoken! :awe:

 

[Bill Brasky]

One. Oh, God, PLEASE only put one.

A theory as to having two spaces after a period is that with monospaced fonts (which is what typewriters used) double-spacing after full stops made it easier for the reader to discern the end of sentences. Of course, since we don't really use monospacing anymore, this is kind of useless. And it looks horrible even with monospaced fonts.

Correct. One space is proper. :thumbsup:

 

[Krynj]

What fuck are some of you talking about? It's TWO, always been TWO and should be TWO. If I'm looking at resumes and you used one space after a period, your shit's in the can. Stop being lazy.

I used to be a firm supporter of two, but I've recently switched to one, simply because there's no reason for two. The reason behind two spaces has already been stated in this thread multiple times. On a computer, one space is fine. For some reason, I was always taught two (perhaps by elderly English teachers?) But it's definitely wrong. And, an extremely hard habit to break.

But it's good that you're eliminating candidates based on something as trivial as spaces after a period -- which you are 100% in the wrong about.

http://www.slate.com/id/2281146/

Or

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...e+space+or+two&aq=1&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=one+space

 

[dullard]

Let's see. Testing (double space)
Second Test. Testing (single space)

edit: motherfucker, it does. Who's responsible for this shit!

It is terrible, mostly because when we need to post something formatted (like a table of data), it can't be done easilly. That is why Jaepheth needed to use code instead when posting. For years, we couldn't even use code in off-topic.

 

[gaidensensei]

in fact, this is a feature of HTML itself. the almighty intarweb has spoken! :awe:

No, it's actually this forum. I used to do this all the time on my other forums until I realized AT was truncating it to one.

 

[moshquerade]

one is the new two.

 

[dighn]

No, it's actually this forum. I used to do this all the time on my other forums until I realized AT was truncating it to one.

try it with an empty HTML document, with just html and body tags. no matter how many spaces you insert between sentences, they are rendered as single spaces. of course you can work around it, but that's jumping through hoops to do something that isn't intended by HTML.

 

[Numenorean]

Really though, we didn't have much in the way of computers when I learned to type. I think my school had a couple Apple IIgs systems. I learned to touch type in the 3rd grade. It was two spaces at that time. I used typewriters through most of grade school when doing reports. Granted, our typewriter had a digital output (ONE LINE OMG!!!) and it would save what you were working on to a point. I didn't get a word processor (ZOMG FIVE WHOLE LINES AND A FLOPPY DISK READER!!!!!) until about 7th grade. It was basically a glorified typewriter, and still....two spaces. When I was in 8th we got a computer lab at our school - had maybe 20 computers. We used Mosaic for web browsing and I remember making HTML pages (lulz) in an elective for all the smart kids.

I had a 486 in high school which probably cost my parents about $2500 for everything. Still two spaces. I didn't even hear about the one space thing being taught until I was out of college.

It's a hard habit to break, but then I see no reason to try since everything looks better with two spaces after a period anyway.

 

[zinfamous]

What if I went to high school 5 decades ago?

then you are simply stuck in an antiquated convention--one that was only adopted for the technology of the time--Yes, One space was the original editorial preference prior to typewriters, but then it was swiftly abandoned once we went on to word processing. Well, the standard was officially abandoned by those who determine style. Not that the general public would ever be aware of this.

I'm sure that most teachers still teach 2 spaces, b/c they simply aren't editors and likely have no clue why 2 spacing was ever a convention.

 

[zinfamous]

What fuck are some of you talking about? It's TWO, always been TWO and should be TWO. If I'm looking at resumes and you used one space after a period, your shit's in the can. Stop being lazy.

No, it wasn't ALWAYS two. your perspective is very limited. I doubt you are an editor or a style smith, so what makes you an expert on this convention?

You seem to have a preference, nothing more.

 

[Jeff7]

One. Dammit.



If it was meant to be 2 spaces, then software would easily be made so that if it detects a period followed by a space, it would automatically make the space wider. At least that's what my inner pragmatist tells me.

The alternative would be to pursue the implementation of a different delimiting character. Maybe make the period 5x larger, or something like that.

 

[zinfamous]

Yeah, two-spacers represent! Fuck you zin! :awe:

KT

Haha. the software is against you!

 

[ElFenix]

limitation of html

 

[sao123]

in fact, this is a feature of HTML itself. the almighty intarweb has spoken! :awe:

Programmers fuck shit up all the time... guess well just fix this bug in html 5.1