Who else can't wait until we can finally witness the end of double spacing after a period

Herr Kutz

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Jun 14, 2009
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Once all the old people die out and the world is rid of this ancient practice, order will be restored. Or at least my job will be much less stressful.
 
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lxskllr

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Nov 30, 2004
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Never noticed. What pisses me off is the draftsman doesn't use full precision when appending the date to a file, and it sometimes fucks up autosorting. I got him close, but not the whole way. Instead of job#_2018-07-06 he does job#_2018-7-6 They aren't fuckin' equivalent!
 

nakedfrog

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Apr 3, 2001
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Don't worry, I'm sure a group of stalwart traditionalists will keep it alive.
 

IronWing

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Don't worry, I'm sure a group of stalwart traditionalists will keep it alive.
Yep, I will. Young people wonder why older people think they are lazy; well this is a reason. There are two spaces before this sentence and after it as well. I don't care that the browser takes one out, right is right.
 

NoTine42

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This all goes to show that school is completely worthless.

Punctuation, Math, Citations, Geography (South Ocean?) Astronomy (Pluto)... have all fundamentally changed since I was in school.
 

Ken g6

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NEVER!!! You'll pry the double space out of my cold dead hands! :mad:

Edit: The forum might automatically remove it, I definitely have a double space after the exclamation point but yet it doesn't appear.

I swear everyone's out to get us
HTML is out to get us. There are ways around it, but I don't think the forum supports them. If these sentences turn out double-spaced then I'm wrong. :D
 

snoopy7548

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Two spaces or bust. Anyone who thinks differently is wack.

Damn this forum's auto-formatting.
 
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Red Storm

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I still type papers that will be printed with double space. I don't care what anyone says, it simply looks and reads better. I don't care if a forum auto formats it away, I don't give a crap about my forum posts anyway.
 
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BoomerD

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Feb 26, 2006
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Period. space. space. Continue next sentence.

Failing to use a double space at the end of sentences would get you a whack with a pointer or yardstick...whatever the typing instructor had handy at the time...

(if he ever saw my typing today, he'd beat me like a rug...) :p
 
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skull

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Jun 5, 2000
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When did this change in school? I'm only 33 and I got marks off my reports in grade school for not double spacing after a sentence it was drilled into us. I always double space and never noticed the forum software taking them out.
 

Thebobo

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This all goes to show that school is completely worthless.

Punctuation, Math, Citations, Geography (South Ocean?) Astronomy (Pluto)... have all fundamentally changed since I was in school.

All the time I learned to write in script wasted!
 
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Red Squirrel

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Double spacing kinda is dead. Most of the time written text is displayed via HTML, and in HTML won't render extra spaces. I put like 20 spaces here but you'll only see one.