Double Spacing After Periods

[Takhisis]

¿Por qué no los dos?

 

[Gori the Grey]

Oh, levershove, undoubtedly (though I'm going to work on a better word than "shove"; in a well operating machine, the movement is a little shy of a shove).

But first I have to go fix the previous defense of the double-space along the lines that crbyxkhan and Takhisis have proposed.

 

[Takhisis]

Of course, go on ahead. Meanwhile, I'll pay tribute to old times ad fire up the original Fallout game.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Done, please feel free to go admire the newly beautified post #112, no less impressive than the restoration of the Sistine Chapel, I think, those double spaces in all their splendor.

 

[Takhisis]

Oh, by all means do start using, as is proper, the ligatures and other signs in their right form. A few examples:
Alt + 0230 -> æ
Alt + 0156 -> œ
Alt + 0133 -> …
(at least in my keyboard, of course)

 

[Joecoolyo]

Alt+255 is my favorite

 

[Takhisis]

Do you think it can help with our predicament?

 

[Birdjaguar]

from Turkey . ı don't deserve I , start paragraphs in small case , following sentences get a capital . There's nothing mysterious to me and ı never claim to be James Tiberius Kirk .

My wife uses two spaces and she told me that on an iPad hitting the space bar twice adds a period and space and auto caps the next word. Three hits and you get a period and two spaces. Something elegant for everyone. I have not confirmed it yet.

 

[Zelig]

from Turkey . ı don't deserve I , start paragraphs in small case , following sentences get a capital . There's nothing mysterious to me and ı never claim to be James Tiberius Kirk .

Capitalization is determined by concensus, not "deserving". You're doing it wrong.

And 'ı' isn't a character in the English language.

 

[Takhisis]

Why are you using the adjective 'wrong' as an adverb, young Zelig?

 

[Zelig]

'Wrong' can be correctly used as an adjective, noun, adverb or verb!

 

[cybrxkhan]

If it's wrong, then I don't wanna be right.

 

[Takhisis]

'Wrong' can be correctly used as an an adjective, noun, adverb or verb!

I disagree.

 

[bhsup]

If it's wrong, then I don't wanna be right.

Barbara Mandrell couldn't have said it better!

 

[Hygro]

[pre]Hygro, whom I will take as a representative of all single-space advocates,
has acknowledged that the aesthetic preferences of readers should not supersede
the compositional utility for writers of the two spaces that properly follow
a sentence-ending period and has thereby in effect conceded the entire argument
as to which is to be preferred. For all that, he obstinately maintains that,
as a reader, he finds the single space preferable. Fully cognizant of the folly
in attempting to persuade someone in matters of aesthetic judgment through rational
argumentation (de gustibus non est disputandum), I nevertheless accept the challenge
of explaining why, were his tastes not corrupted, Hygro would acknowledge that
two spaces after a sentence-ending period are aesthetically superior to just one.
Multiple well-established aesthetic principles clearly indicate why this should be so.
First, there is the pleasing balance of two symmetrical units, the right-hand space
and the left-hand in a taut-but-relaxed interplay with one another, a sort of
achromatic chiaroscuro, if you will. Second, there is the so-called golden mean,
which suggests that human beings find the ratio of 5:8 particularly appealing. In
typography, the standard ratio of height to width for individual letters is 5:3, with
a single unit of separation between letters. This makes the height-to-width ratio of
two em-spaces and their separation 5:8, a proportion on which the beauty of such
disparate splendors as the Parthenon and Dali’s “Sacrament of the Last Supper” are
understood to depend. Finally, what a work of art suggests is generally held to be
more powerful and compelling than what it directly expresses. La Giocanda is the more
beguiling in that the viewer is allowed and encouraged to speculate regarding the
grounds for her smile. What Hamlet has “within which passes show” is never explicitly
revealed, and the play is the more powerful for letting its viewer supply the answer. A
two-space interval between sentences possesses just such a pregnant suggestiveness,
often more powerful than what the sentences themselves convey. A single space
is no more than intervenes between “Mr.” and “Ed,” and thus (of course) holds no richness
of implication. I dare suggest that Hygro has never actually bothered to look at a dychora,
and if he were to, really look, he would immediately apprehend how a single space is nothing,
whereas two nothings . . . now that is something![/pre]

That was horrible. But I applaud you for making it.

 

[Farm Boy]

You don't find that incredibly easy to read?

 

[Hygro]

I found that difficult and requiring more concentration. But that wasn't because of the two spaces but because the double spacing and the uncomfortable right-hand breaks. My favorite blogger at the moment double spaces after periods--I just now noticed this--and I've liked the visual format. Two spaces after periods can sometimes be better and usually isn't, but other things matter more.

 

[Farm Boy]

The font matters a lot. I just kinda have a thing for some seriffed ones

 

[bhsup]

I found that difficult and requiring more concentration. But that wasn't because of the two spaces but because the double spacing and the uncomfortable right-hand breaks

Seriously? How ood. They much be teaching you guys all wrong in school these days.

 

[r16]

Capitalization is determined by concensus, not "deserving". You're doing it wrong.

And 'ı' isn't a character in the English language.

the thing is ı am a "guest member" in some weird Turkish language forum and there has been times ı personally have been asked to mention what's the mood over there . As such when ı say Uncle Sam will be handed his teeth , nobody ever thinks ı will knock out the said . Even if it's also true that ı will command the orbital bombardment of the CONUS as soon as practicable . ı am doing it so right .