Mon Jun 14, 2004 6:27 pm
Ask someone who has access to my LJ. This has been drilled into my mind fifty thousand times over, I'll never stop doing it.
Mon Jun 14, 2004 6:41 pm
No. Noone bothers here, I was never told to use two spaces and I've never heard of anyone using two spaces after a fullstop in my school.
Mon Jun 14, 2004 6:47 pm
Yes, we were taught that in elementary school, but no one uses it anymore. I know of maybe two people that do it.
Personally, I stopped because my dad told me that was old school and that no one does it. Being told something is old school by your dad definitely motivates you to change.
Personally, I stopped because my dad told me that was old school and that no one does it. Being told something is old school by your dad definitely motivates you to change.
Mon Jun 14, 2004 6:56 pm
I was taught to use two spaces after a fullstop. So that's what I use (unless I'm putting a smilie). 
Mon Jun 14, 2004 7:22 pm
I think it's different in America maybe? I always use 1 space and so does everyone else I know IRL.
Mon Jun 14, 2004 7:40 pm
This is another one of those crazy American things that I've never heard about before...just like how its illegal to cross a state border with a duck on your head.
Mon Jun 14, 2004 7:44 pm
Christopher wrote:This is another one of those crazy American things that I've never heard about before...just like how its illegal to cross a state border with a duck on your head.
WHAT?! You mean, a real living one? o.O;;;
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Mon Jun 14, 2004 7:46 pm
The two spaces is a convention left over from typewriters, because all typewriters had were monospaced fonts. Word processors generally use proportional fonts, so it's no longer necessary to type two spaces after a period.
I confirmed this with my mother, who writes and edits professionally. She said that she and her coworkers often have to delete the extra space after the period, because people are taught incorrectly.
Anyway, it doesn't matter on the web. Two spaces, unless hardcoded with , only appear as one in the vast majority of browsers.
Hello world
Hello world
They look the same, but the first was typed with two spaces in between hello and world.
I confirmed this with my mother, who writes and edits professionally. She said that she and her coworkers often have to delete the extra space after the period, because people are taught incorrectly.
Anyway, it doesn't matter on the web. Two spaces, unless hardcoded with , only appear as one in the vast majority of browsers.
Hello world
Hello world
They look the same, but the first was typed with two spaces in between hello and world.
Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:23 pm
Oh, good... then I wasn't listening to my dad for dumb reasons. That's how he justified it as well.vermilion wrote:The two spaces is a convention left over from typewriters, because all typewriters had were monospaced fonts. Word processors generally use proportional fonts, so it's no longer necessary to type two spaces after a period.
I do that when editing my friend's papers as well.vermilion wrote:I confirmed this with my mother, who writes and edits professionally. She said that she and her coworkers often have to delete the extra space after the period, because people are taught incorrectly.
Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:25 pm
Christopher wrote:This is another one of those crazy American things that I've never heard about before...just like how its illegal to cross a state border with a duck on your head.
Well there goes my hobby...
Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:01 pm
I've always been told two spaces and I've always made two spaces. It's become a habit now.
Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:05 pm
I do it.
Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:08 pm
Yeah, I was told that when I took typing in High School. Also, when we counted how many words we did a minute, that a word was 5 characters/spaces, so we had to count the sets of 5.
Mon Jun 14, 2004 10:05 pm
Ahh, you see, the truth has been revealed. I guess it's like that paragraph thing. At my old school we were taught to start a new line on a new paragraph and put an indent, but another school was taught just to leave a line in between paragraphs.
Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:35 pm
I dont know about the two spaces thing. Maybe just to make it look good.