Originally posted by: preslove
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: sash1
i learned two spaces way back in the day. i don't know anyone who uses two spaces anymore. i just think it looks bad, and i've gotten so used to just using one space.
i can't believe the poll, do that many people actually double space after a period still? because no one is doing it in this thread.
apparently, you don't know most of the properly educated people, then.
Please stfu, you freaking idiot. You have provided no proof for your obstinant, antiquated beliefs. Publishers and copy editors are the ones who make these standards, and their standard is ONE SPACE. The reason why most people say 2 spaces is because their middle or high school teacher told them to. These people don't make the standards. You are the uneducated moron, not the rest of us. You're just too stupid to realize this fact.
I was taught in a very good school (referencing you're pretentious statement about good schools teaching 2 spaces) that an intelligent person must take different sources and compare their validity, choose the more credible sources, then reference those sources in the body of their writing. You have done none of these because you are stupid.
The following posters are intelligent:
Originally posted by: Baked
Originally posted by: TheNinja
period space space - if your'e an uneducated idiot.
One Space or Two?
Q. Please help. I have confusion regarding the correct spacing after periods and other closing punctuation. My company uses the font Arial and consistently uses a flush-left margin. We are an engineering company. My job consists in preparing documents and letters for customers. Everything I read in manuals and from technical writers directs me to use one space after periods. I find that it works very well, except occasionally, when an extra space helps readability. Knowledgeable engineers have embraced the one space use as being consistent with the font design and automation of reports. Others are unpleased with the one space, they think they have difficulty reading. (I, too, had an adjustment period which I forced myself to endure until it became automatic to read easily.) We are preparing technical information. What do you think? Thanks for your wonderful support and especially the quick answers. I greatly appreciate your service.
A. The view at CMOS is that there is no reason for two spaces after a period in published work. Some people, however?my colleagues included?prefer it, relegating this preference to their personal correspondence and notes. I?ve noticed in old American books printed in the few decades before and after the turn of the last century (ca. 1870?1930 at least) that there seemed to be a trend in publishing to use extra space (sometimes quite a bit of it) after periods. And many people were taught to use that extra space in typing class (I was). But introducing two spaces after the period causes problems: (1) it is inefficient, requiring an extra keystroke for every sentence; (2) even if a program is set to automatically put an extra space after a period, such automation is never foolproof; (3) there is no proof that an extra space actually improves readability?as your comment suggests, it?s probably just a matter of familiarity (Who knows? perhaps it?s actually more efficient to read with less regard for sentences as individual units of thought?many centuries ago, for example in ancient Greece, there were no spaces even between words, and no punctuation); (4) two spaces are harder to control for than one in electronic documents (I find that the earmark of a document that imposes a two-space rule is a smattering of instances of both three spaces and one space after a period, and two spaces in the middle of sentences); and (5) two spaces can cause problems with line breaks in certain programs.
So, in our efficient, modern world, I think there is no room for two spaces after a period. In the opinion of this particular copyeditor, this is a good thing.
The Chicago Manual of Style, Fifteenth Edition
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
oh for christ sake.
pick up a book. one space.
pick up a newspaper. one space.
pick up your bank statement. one space.
pick up a research article printed in an academic journal. one space.
HTML doesn't even recognize two spaces.
and no, the word processor does not "correct" it to two spaces. there would be no way for the processor to tell the difference between an abbreviation and the end of a sentance. what it does correct for is missed capital letters, but that doesn't affect the spacing.
that two space crap is a hold-over from the type-writer days and any school still teaching it needs to take their heads out of their buttholes and smell the silicon.
but i guess if a few ATOT mouth-breathers can't read english without arbitrary aids (do you guys need "big text," too?), then the world's professional writing community must be wrong.
I love how absolutely none of the pro-double space crowd has provided a single link for justification. As another poster pointed out,
A simple google search tells you that 1 space is the standard. The MLA, APA, and CMS, the three major standards for scholarly writing, ALL say that 1 space is correct.
Again, most people use 2 spaces because their public school typing teacher told them to use 2 spaces. I had typing in middle and high school. Both teachers told me to use 2 spaces, and both of them were idiots who had the most brain dead jobs on campus.
and yes I took keyboarding in highschool
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