Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. ⇒
14 January 2011, late morning
I still put two spaces after a period in pretty much anything I type. That sort of muscle memory is hard to forget. (I think anyway. As I type this I find myself only pressing the space bar once after each period. I think it is because I am thinking about the whole process of typing.)
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what?! i don’t think I can do just one space. I just had to backspace 3 times. Funny thing is, in HTML it doesn’t even matter how many you type, it will get rendered as 1 space only anyway.
by juan on January 14 2011, 6:23 pm #
I hate reading code at work where the comments have two spaces. I sneak in changes to removes the extra spaces and hope they don’t notice. :-)
by Ryan on January 14 2011, 8:09 pm #
I will never use just one space. I can’t even imagine how many hundreds of thousands of times I’ve tapped that space bar twice. I can’t even fathom stopping.
by Ben on January 14 2011, 9:18 pm #
Where did you pick up the two-space thing? I’ve heard about you people but didn’t know you were all around me.
by Ananthan on January 16 2011, 2:12 pm #
Grade 9 typing class, which was were I learned to touch type. At that point in time my typing teacher probably should have know better. I think she just hated us and her job, and was just phoning it in.
by Ramanan on January 16 2011, 10:00 pm #
Does that mean if I switch to a monospaced font, I can continue to put two spaces after each period?
by rishi on January 17 2011, 4:45 pm #