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Two Spaces or One

May 4 2011, 11:37 pm
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May 5 2011, 2:15 am

Sacrieur Post #21

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Double spaces often make blocks of text more aesthetically pleasing.

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May 5 2011, 5:21 am

EzDay281 Post #22

I double-space. Don't know why. The fact that it doesn't show up in most contexts online hasn't stopped this habit of mine.

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May 5 2011, 1:56 pm

NudeRaider Post #23

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With the introduction of proportional fonts in computers, double sentence spacing became obsolete, according to many experts.[13]

Stop living in the 80s and using typewriter conventions, unless you're using Courier.
==> single space

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May 5 2011, 7:45 pm

O)FaRTy1billion[MM] Post #24

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I think we should septuple-space. Something about it just looks better. It's never even occurred to me ever to put more than one space anywhere other than to indent lines. :\

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May 5 2011, 8:23 pm

TiKels Post #25

Actually in my opinion no space is best.It just makes everything look so classy.Y'know?I mean you cannot disagree.

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May 5 2011, 9:10 pm

Lanthanide Post #26

Ugh, there's a guy that routinely comments on a blog I read, who refuses to use spaces after any punctuation marks. When challenged, he didn't have any logical reason for it. Not even "I prefer it", it was something lame like "but then why?" that didn't even make sense.

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May 6 2011, 12:01 am

Riney Post #27

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Double space; its easier for an instructor to make marks on the paper when there is a clear and defining white space saying WRITE HERE or just a sign in general saying THIS IS A NEW SENTENCE.

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May 6 2011, 12:12 am

O)FaRTy1billion[MM] Post #28

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How do you write anything in this much space > < as apposed to this much space > <?

"or just a sign in general saying THIS IS A NEW SENTENCE." as was said before: that is what '.' is for.

May 6 2011, 6:45 am

Riney Post #29

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As Im known to do, my periods are ridiculously small. Also Ive noticed its rather hard to make a noticeable > next to a letter thats supposed to be capital (Mind you this is when the paper isnt in double spaced formatting) when theres no room to fit it in (Used to grade other classmates papers because the teacher was lazy and felt like conning us into doing it for extra credit).

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May 6 2011, 9:40 am

DT_Battlekruser Post #30

By habit, I also always use two spaces between my sentences. However, it doesn't really matter. What is unequivocally clear is that the space between sentences must be larger than that between words. If the kerning of the punctuation and space accomplishes this with one space, then that's fine.

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May 6 2011, 1:21 pm

NudeRaider Post #31

We can't explain the universe, just describe it; and we don't know whether our theories are true, we just know they're not wrong. >Harald Lesch

A period is so small that it functions as a space. Look at your paragraph and see how sentences look like they have a bigger gap as words between them.

May 6 2011, 2:07 pm

rockz Post #32

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Often times I can't tell the difference between small/large font commas and periods. If there are 2 spaces between periods, I can tell the difference easily. This font is easy to differentiate, but when the color is, say, green on white, and the period is fairly large, and the comma is only 25% different from a period, it's hard to tell for me.

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