View Poll Results : What spacing convention do you follow at the end of a sentence?
Do You Single or Double Space After a Period?
15 February 2013, 11:26 AM
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Do You Single or Double Space After a Period?
As per the heading - discuss
15 February 2013, 11:28 AM
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Single. Double looks ugly, and is so 1997.
15 February 2013, 11:28 AM
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Officially, double. Myself single.
15 February 2013, 11:51 AM
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Either is fine, but it doesn't really matter these days and here's why?
The practice arose when using typewriters and old printing plate technology as it made a good visual break for sentences. However with the rise of computers the practice didn't really work.
The reason is that old printing technology and typewriters by definition used monospaced fonts e.g. each letter takes uo the same amount of space e.g. an i was as long as an m so when two spaces were left at the end of a sentence the gap was significant.
With computers most fonts are proportional i.e. an i takes up less space than an m and hence the two space gap wasn't that different to a one space gap so it fell out of favour.
Then came the internet where two spaces in HTML is always rendered as one space unless the tag is used.
So use either.... both are fine
15 February 2013, 11:53 AM
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I am a man and don't have periods.
15 February 2013, 12:06 PM
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Has this was SN has come to? Polls about typing etiquette :/
15 February 2013, 12:08 PM
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Has this was SN has come to? Polls about typing etiquette :/
That and a few narrow minded bigots' crusade against homosexuyality yes!
15 February 2013, 12:25 PM
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Nothing wrong with wanting to be right.
15 February 2013, 12:26 PM
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Officially, double. Myself single.
Your spelling or marital status
15 February 2013, 12:27 PM
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15 February 2013, 12:27 PM
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I usually give it at least a day....
15 February 2013, 12:29 PM
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Nothing wrong with wanting to be right.
Nope
15 February 2013, 12:32 PM
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I use two spaces as this is what I was taught at school and it has stuck.
15 February 2013, 12:32 PM
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Nothing wrong with wanting to be right.
I agree and personally I enjoy the spelling/grammar threads
15 February 2013, 12:35 PM
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Single. Nothing to discuss.
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15 February 2013, 01:06 PM
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Your spelling or marital status
Either or!
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15 February 2013, 02:05 PM
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I take it you're American as you've called it a period, but I use two spaces after a full stop (English term for a period).
15 February 2013, 02:42 PM
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I type at 60 - 70 WPM depending on the key board I am using and I still manage to find to hit space twice
15 February 2013, 02:45 PM
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Has anyone mentioned the "en" and the "em" space yet? Is it even relevant?
15 February 2013, 02:49 PM
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Can't see how it's relevant to you John? I thought all you Doctor types stick to handwritten illegible nonsense
15 February 2013, 02:59 PM
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We're supposedly paper light. Even my urgent same day communications are typed.
15 February 2013, 03:00 PM
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It's a brave new world...
15 February 2013, 03:36 PM
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Has anyone mentioned the "en" and the "em" space yet? Is it even relevant?
Bloody hell, not heard "en" and "em" spacing since I cut my teeth in desktop publishing with GEM's Ventura Publisher about a million years ago,
To the OP. Double spaces are not required following a full stop; I refer the OP and others to
http://www.slate.com/articles/techno..._invaders.html
Unless you're using a typewriter, don't do it.
15 February 2013, 08:43 PM
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Not a problem for me.In my house I never get to complete a sentence.
15 February 2013, 08:53 PM
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No idea what this threads about lol
15 February 2013, 08:58 PM
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**** me, thought this was another supermarket parking without getting your doors dinged thread!!
15 February 2013, 08:59 PM
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Double space after a full stop? Never heard of it.
15 February 2013, 11:51 AM
