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CosMind
Sep '09
4
Re: something just happened CosMind // 18:51
I don't know about CosMind, but i sometimes do it (rarely anymore) because in school i done a computer class and part of that was a typing lesson. In that lesson we were told to leave two spaces after a full stop. Also when starting a new paragraph we were told to put an indent on the first line.. i think it was two spaces, may have been a tab.

bingo.  that's exactly why i do it, too. classes both in high school and college taught me to do the two.  i'ven't had anyone unlearn me of it since. is it in fact incorrect?

clysm
Sep '09
4
Re: something just happened clysm // 19:21
You're supposed to use only one space nowadays. The old two-space practice was related to typewriters with monospace fonts, since that made it easier to see where a sentence was ending. The fonts we use on computers now are normally variable-width.

But unless you have a professional reason to change, I don't think it matters much which way you do it as long as you're consistent.

ChevyRay
Sep '09
4
Re: something just happened ChevyRay // 20:51
Yup, ancient typewriter practice. It's definitely not incorrect, though. Lots of people still do it, and some agree that it does, in fact, still help in separating sentences and making a body of text more readable. I personally avoid it because I like the uniformity of single-space :)

Shaltif
Sep '09
5
Re: something just happened Shaltif // 03:11
Speaking about spaces, while I was in a middle school computer class this summer, I remember seeing a poster that read '....place two spaces after a period...', with 'two' partially covered over with a sheet of paper with the word 'one' on it, so some of the old teaching material is still present in many schools.  I also remember this rule changing about halfway into my highschool years, which was really annoying for term papers (some teachers are picky as hell).

Anyway, today I still put '  ' (2) spaces after a period.  That was just the way I was taught ;P  Besides, it will become retro sometime in the future and I'll be cool again.
~Brandon

ChevyRay
Sep '09
5
Re: something just happened ChevyRay // 03:50
Besides, it will become retro sometime in the future and I'll be cool again.
~Brandon

This is true.

Matt Thorson
Sep '09
7
Re: something just happened Matt Thorson // 00:58
Yeah I still do 2 spaces too, out of habit.

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