who STILL does this?
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When typing a paper and ending a sentence, you put in a period then hit space TWICE before starting the next sentence? If you do you should ALL BE SHOT! Come ON, I think we have progressed just a bit here into the proportionally spaced fonts to NOT have to do that anymore? Please? Can we just end the madness? I looked all over and tried to locate a setting that would NOT allow this as valid thinking that it was most likely a fall over form the older days of mono-spaced fonts, but I can’t seem to find a place to mark this as ‘wrong’ (IE: Green underline it).
As a writer, I still double-space after periods. Whether it's necessary from a technical standpoint is irrelevant. It looks cleaner with two spaces, as I see it. It's easier for the eye to follow it, and when you're writing fiction, you don't want people to be distracted by difficult formatting.
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When typing a paper and ending a sentence, you put in a period then hit space TWICE before starting the next sentence? If you do you should ALL BE SHOT! Come ON, I think we have progressed just a bit here into the proportionally spaced fonts to NOT have to do that anymore? Please? Can we just end the madness? I looked all over and tried to locate a setting that would NOT allow this as valid thinking that it was most likely a fall over form the older days of mono-spaced fonts, but I can’t seem to find a place to mark this as ‘wrong’ (IE: Green underline it).
Is that quite a few people have put double spaces after their full stops, without realising the the browsers will ignore the additional spaces unless you use or
pretags. Ah well.My current favourite phrase: I've seen better!
-SK Genius
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When typing a paper and ending a sentence, you put in a period then hit space TWICE before starting the next sentence? If you do you should ALL BE SHOT! Come ON, I think we have progressed just a bit here into the proportionally spaced fonts to NOT have to do that anymore? Please? Can we just end the madness? I looked all over and tried to locate a setting that would NOT allow this as valid thinking that it was most likely a fall over form the older days of mono-spaced fonts, but I can’t seem to find a place to mark this as ‘wrong’ (IE: Green underline it).
Ray Cassick wrote:
When typing a paper and ending a sentence, you put in a period then hit space TWICE before starting the next sentence?
Even though this is not a question, I'll answer its intent: yes.
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So you want us to be like you and hit enter twice before starting our next sentence? :-D
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Kschuler wrote:
So you want us to be like you and hit enter twice after before starting our next sentence?
Yes.That's what he wants. Hmmmm. At least, I think that's what he wants. Frankly I'm not even sure if I should be using one space after a period.Or perhaps none at all. Can I still use one space after a comma? I'm so confused now.All I know is two spaces after a period is bad.Every sentence as it's very own paragraph,good. Oooh. Now I've got it. If I just do every sentence as it's own paragraph I'll never have to worry about how many spaces to put after each period. ;P PS Just for the record. I still put two spaces after a period. It just seems right to me. One after a comma, two after a period. :-O
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When typing a paper and ending a sentence, you put in a period then hit space TWICE before starting the next sentence? If you do you should ALL BE SHOT! Come ON, I think we have progressed just a bit here into the proportionally spaced fonts to NOT have to do that anymore? Please? Can we just end the madness? I looked all over and tried to locate a setting that would NOT allow this as valid thinking that it was most likely a fall over form the older days of mono-spaced fonts, but I can’t seem to find a place to mark this as ‘wrong’ (IE: Green underline it).
Ray Cassick wrote:
I looked all over and tried to locate a setting that would NOT allow this as valid thinking that it was most likely a fall over form the older days of mono-spaced fonts, but I can’t seem to find a place to mark this as ‘wrong’ (IE: Green underline it).
In MS Word 2007: Office button - Word options - Proofing - When correcting spelling and grammar in Word - Settings - Require - Spaces required between sentences - 1.
Cheers, विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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Ray Cassick wrote:
I looked all over and tried to locate a setting that would NOT allow this as valid thinking that it was most likely a fall over form the older days of mono-spaced fonts, but I can’t seem to find a place to mark this as ‘wrong’ (IE: Green underline it).
In MS Word 2007: Office button - Word options - Proofing - When correcting spelling and grammar in Word - Settings - Require - Spaces required between sentences - 1.
Cheers, विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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When typing a paper and ending a sentence, you put in a period then hit space TWICE before starting the next sentence? If you do you should ALL BE SHOT! Come ON, I think we have progressed just a bit here into the proportionally spaced fonts to NOT have to do that anymore? Please? Can we just end the madness? I looked all over and tried to locate a setting that would NOT allow this as valid thinking that it was most likely a fall over form the older days of mono-spaced fonts, but I can’t seem to find a place to mark this as ‘wrong’ (IE: Green underline it).
Hear hear! (Except for the shooting part.)
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Hear hear! (Except for the shooting part.)
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When typing a paper and ending a sentence, you put in a period then hit space TWICE before starting the next sentence? If you do you should ALL BE SHOT! Come ON, I think we have progressed just a bit here into the proportionally spaced fonts to NOT have to do that anymore? Please? Can we just end the madness? I looked all over and tried to locate a setting that would NOT allow this as valid thinking that it was most likely a fall over form the older days of mono-spaced fonts, but I can’t seem to find a place to mark this as ‘wrong’ (IE: Green underline it).
spacescapitallettersandpuncuationareforpussies
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When typing a paper and ending a sentence, you put in a period then hit space TWICE before starting the next sentence? If you do you should ALL BE SHOT! Come ON, I think we have progressed just a bit here into the proportionally spaced fonts to NOT have to do that anymore? Please? Can we just end the madness? I looked all over and tried to locate a setting that would NOT allow this as valid thinking that it was most likely a fall over form the older days of mono-spaced fonts, but I can’t seem to find a place to mark this as ‘wrong’ (IE: Green underline it).
Ray Cassick wrote:
Come ON, I think we have progressed just a bit here into the proportionally spaced fonts to NOT have to do that anymore?
Well when the proportional fonts start putting the equivalent of two spaces after a period automatically instead of just one, I'll concede you have a point. Until then I'll continue to think you're an idiot, as are the people who wrote the html rendering rules to ignore double spacing without having to jump through hoops. Sample text from word 2007 in fixed and proportional fonts.[^] (11pt, 100% zoom) PS ASingle spacers should ALL BE STABBED through the kidneys.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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Ray Cassick wrote:
Come ON, I think we have progressed just a bit here into the proportionally spaced fonts to NOT have to do that anymore?
Well when the proportional fonts start putting the equivalent of two spaces after a period automatically instead of just one, I'll concede you have a point. Until then I'll continue to think you're an idiot, as are the people who wrote the html rendering rules to ignore double spacing without having to jump through hoops. Sample text from word 2007 in fixed and proportional fonts.[^] (11pt, 100% zoom) PS ASingle spacers should ALL BE STABBED through the kidneys.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
Dan Neely wrote:
Sample text from word 2007 in fixed and proportional fonts.[^] (11pt, 100% zoom)
Ok, I read that and I'm sure it's a good story, but I really couldn't understand the plot - it was a bit complicated. Could you explain it to me please? :laugh:
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You're welcome :)
Cheers, विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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Dan Neely wrote:
Sample text from word 2007 in fixed and proportional fonts.[^] (11pt, 100% zoom)
Ok, I read that and I'm sure it's a good story, but I really couldn't understand the plot - it was a bit complicated. Could you explain it to me please? :laugh:
Chris C-B wrote:
Ok, I read that and I'm sure it's a good story, but I really couldn't understand the plot - it was a bit complicated. Could you explain it to me please?
Poster 1 claims double spacing after period is no longer needed because proportional width fonts make it unnecessary and threatens gun violence against those who disagree. Poster 2 demonstrates that in fact current proportional fonts don't make a single space after a period any wider than a single space in a fixed width font, Poster 2 then laughs and then returns to what he was doing. PS The FollyWeird version of the story has a different ending. ...poster 2 then follows poster 1 into an alley and then stabs him in the kidney's with a bowie knife. Unable to scream due to the pain poster 1 isn't found before bleeding to death and the rats start snacking on the remains. :laugh:
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
