Boomer? -----Original Message----- From: Tom Brennan <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Feb 28, 2020 9:49 am Subject: Re: 2 Spaces after periods [was: RE: Rexx parse using period as placeholder]
Boomer :) On 2/28/2020 7:40 AM, Mitch Mccluhan wrote: > I VOTE FOR 2 SPACES!!! Is that loud enough? It has ALWAYS made reading, >easier. > Mitch > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joel C. Ewing <[email protected]> > To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, Feb 28, 2020 9:26 am > Subject: Re: 2 Spaces after periods [was: RE: Rexx parse using period as > placeholder] > > This is a sentence ending with one space. This is a sentence ending with > two spaces. My email client is supposedly using a proportional, > variable width font, and the typical smaller width used for a space > character tends to make sentences merge together visually when only a > single space is used. Two spaces make the end of a sentence more > apparent visually, especially since with many fonts a "period" is almost > indistinguishable from a speck of dirt on the screen. The improved > visual separation with two spaces is even greater on typical browser fonts. > > I personally think the argument for a single space at end of sentence is > BS, made up out of laziness by someone who has not yet needed reading > glasses. Setting off sentences with extra space was a long-established > practice with good handwriting, not something that originated because > typewriters had imprecise spacing. > > Yes, a single space at end of sentence may now be acceptable, but it is > aesthetically inferior. > JC Ewing > > On 2/28/20 5:38 AM, Joe Monk wrote: >> The rule now is 1 space after a period. >> >> Two spaces after a period was the rule on a typewriter, because the fonts >> weren't proportional, they were monospace. This led to uneven spacing of >> words on paper, so two spaces was the rule. >> >> Nowadays, on a computer, the fonts are proportional. For instance on a >> typewriter, the characters i and a take the same amount of space. But on a >> word processor, i and a dont take the same amount of space. Thus, no need >> for two spaces. >> >> This is a monospace font. >> This is a proportional font. >> >> Joe >> >> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 2:59 PM Paul Gilmartin < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 15:48:44 -0500, Steve Smith wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks for another reminder I'm "really old" :-). The rule, btw, is two >>>> spaces at the end of a sentence. And I think it makes at least as much >>>> sense for proportional fonts as mono. You can (and I do) have Word check >>>> to make sure they're always there... >>>> >>> Specifically, not after titles: "Ms. Smith", "Dr. Jones:. Also bad >>> places for >>> automatic linebreaks. >>> >>> -- gil >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
