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theadvancedapes  ·  3928 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Never Put Two Spaces After A Period - Business Insider

Haha, ya. The Manual of Typography, with all-due-respect, isn't exactly revealing a critical flaw to how we self-organize and share information. I'm using two-spaces now. Can you still understand me? Are you perturbed by the extra space so much that I become incomprehensible?





user-inactivated  ·  3928 days ago  ·  link  ·  

FYI, the two spaces become one space in your comment due to HTML's "feature" of automatic concatenation of spaces in p tags.

  <pre>        </pre>
would preserve the space.

If you check the source of this page, you'll see that the spaces are actually there, and it's not Hubski's fault (as I had first assumed when I realized that spaces were concatenated on this site).

theadvancedapes  ·  3928 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh that's interesting. I've never even noticed that. To be honest, I just don't care about the two-space or one-space thing. I'm cool with either.

user-inactivated  ·  3928 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, same, it seems that most people don't actually care, but the people that do care are quite vocal about their stance for whatever reason. I guess like editor wars, but for English teachers?

theadvancedapes  ·  3928 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ya I suppose. It's kind of funny to read/hear people get so passionate for something so trivial.