Gregory Go - Latest Comments in Space or Space Space

Re: Space or Space Space

Greg Go — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:04:40 -0000

The iphone's onscreen keyboard has the period character on a different
screen, so you have to hit two keys to get a period. But it does have a
shortcut for the period -- hit the spacebar twice. It's a habit that will
be with me for a while. :)

Re: Space or Space Space

Lynn Truong — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:19:45 -0000

Grammar Girls says that we need to move to the one space, since we're no longer in the monospace typewriter age, which was the reason to use double space in the first place.

It's a hard habit to break though.

Re: Space or Space Space

Mitch — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:31:56 -0000

In 1994, I learned in a newspaper class that you only used that for monospaced fonts (typewriters) and that for variable-width-character fonts, the kerning takes the space after a period into account. I haven't looked back since and snicker and laugh at the double-spacebarers. HA HA!