Single or Double Space After A Period

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by nik-

Why does it bother you?

Why do you assume it bothers me?

[getbak]

Originally Posted by nik-

Additionally, I notice that the forum automatically puts a double space as a single space. So I guess the CP style guide is single space too.

That's how every web browser works with text. It ignores anything more than one space because people writing HTML want to be able to format the underlying code on a page in a way that makes it easy to read when coding but don't want it to display in the browser that way.


You can do multiple spaces by adding non-breaking spaces " " but the forum software converts that to plain text, so you can't add nbsp's to your posts here.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Why do you assume it bothers me?

Because you seem like one of those people that isn't happy unless you are ridiculing others. Why else would you find it "hilarious" that a group of people who grew up in an era where double spacing was the norm still use double spacing? Shall we make fun of senior citizens that are computer illiterate while we are at it?

[Wood]

I was taught quadruple space. Netminder was MY mentor !!!!!!

[Cube Inmate]

Double-spacing improves readability even in modern proportional fonts. I find there's also a subtle but noticeable psychological effect when typing something out and linking the conclusion of your sentence with an easy but memorable physical action (the double-space tap). Such a link helps prevent run-on sentences, or the inadvertent incompletion of a sentence. <Unconscious mind> Did I finish that thought? Yes! I unconsciously remember the distinct double-space feeling! </Unconscious Mind>

The fact that you kids didn't even know that double-spacing was a "thing" is more troubling than us dinosaurs who refuse to abandon it. You're going to have a hard time learning to double-space when the apocalypse comes and we're without electricity!

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Because you seem like one of those people that isn't happy unless you are ridiculing others.

I am literally Snidely Whiplash. AMA.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Why do you assume it bothers me?

Because of how rustled in the jimmies you're coming across.

[Wood]

My iPad automatically makes it one space, and Apple rules the world, so single space is correct

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Because you seem like one of those people that isn't happy unless you are ridiculing others. Why else would you find it "hilarious" that a group of people who grew up in an era where double spacing was the norm still use double spacing? Shall we make fun of senior citizens that are computer illiterate while we are at it?

I never said I wasn't an Ageist.

[speede5]

I'm over 40 and can't remember ever double spacing. Were we taught that in typing class? I work with lots of documnets and double spacing would make a mess, I can't stand working in word when there's extra spaces, spaces instead of tabs, etc.

[JonDuke]

I never even knew this was a thing to debate.
I always use single spaces.

[V]

Haha, there hasn't been enough misogyny on this site for Psycnet to outlet his righteous indignation, so you knew it was going to show up somewhere. May as well be here.

[PsYcNeT]

[nik-]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

you're trying too hard

[speede5]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

A preference put forward by someone old who learned to type on a typewriter no doubt.

You should hear my dad, he's 75, type on a computer. It sounds like he's beating the bloody thing to a pulp. When I was I kid he would be on his old mechanical typewriter for several hours a day.

Talk about old and not breaking a habit. I took him to the library one time a few years back so he could get on the internet and access his email. all the other surfers stopped and stared, he was pounding away at 80 words a minute.

I got a good chuckle.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

[PsYcNeT]

Sorry I don't speak Reddit.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Sorry I don't speak Reddit.

........

Originally Posted by nik-

you're trying too hard

[surferguy]

I use double space, I was taught that in high school, everything I learned in high school was correct and still is.

[simmonjam1]

Now we'll have single-space nazis on here to go with the grammar nazis.