KokopelliOnABike t1_izk0g1u wrote
Reply to comment by ShouldBeeStudying in A website where you can practice typing by typing out classic literature instead of random words or passages - You improve your typing speed and read a great book at the same time ! by MagicalEloquence
2 spaces went the way of the dodo.
ShouldBeeStudying t1_izkayed wrote
I still have my keyboarding book telling us to do it that way. Haha, 40 years from now I will still show it to people. It's so much more fun to hit it twice!
stringdom t1_izkihog wrote
It's a really bad practice though. I mean, it was bad practice then, and it is worse practice now. Unless you are typing with a 1930's typewriter, and even then it was a subject of debate among typographers. European press hated it. Graphic designers have always been against it as well. It fucks up legibility, creates rivers, looks ugly and makes parsing text harder for computers. Essentially it's exclusively an US stubbornness thing. Just like people adding vertical space with newlines, it's a holdover from worse times.
ShouldBeeStudying t1_izkmiod wrote
Any reasonable person knows a lot of what you said is subjective.
iamobiwan t1_izlvm4l wrote
It’s really not. Style guides exist for this reason. There are rules of grammar, style, and punctuation.
https://www.thesaurus.com/e/writing/is-there-1-space-or-2-after-a-period/ “According to every major style guide you’ll find, the rule is a single space after a period or any other punctuation mark you use to end a sentence. Even the APA, the staunchest defender of the double space over the decades, changed their stance on the issue in 2019.”
You can just ignore their advice : just like you can use the wrong punctuation and Capitalization whEnever you want’”
But that doesn’t mean it’s subjective. That’s like saying having 2 periods at the end of each sentence is subjective. It really isn’t.
ShouldBeeStudying t1_izlwujm wrote
Whether an authority says X or not doesn't mean it looks ugly. And legibility for one person is different than for other people. I've delt with parse texing the difference on computers and it's not ba.... nevermind. This discussion has been done and it's not what I'm here for
stringdom t1_izknzf1 wrote
Yes, but is it unreasonable or illogical?
ShouldBeeStudying t1_izksg3r wrote
No. Just not objectively true and it doesn't doesn't settle anything. Folks have had this conversation way better than anyone on here will be able to do, and we've probably read them ourselves already anyway. So it would be nice if this website accommodate both methods
stringdom t1_izkts99 wrote
> Just not objectively true
Nothing is. You do you, if you are the only one seeing your text and want to have fun double spacing, go ahead. Knock yourself out, break that space bar. But as soon as you are writing for publishing or for others you'll have your text immediately manhandled, criticized and corrected. And it will all be with those same subjective opinions that are going to determine the validity and worth of your writing. I've seen editors throw away pitches because of the double space thing, “It is in the guidelines, if they won't read and respect the submission guidelines then they are not worth my time.”
ShouldBeeStudying t1_izkvx1v wrote
I've seen it go the other way in a professional setting. One place I worked you couldn't put documents out to clients with single. One of the jr. analysts even redid templates once for the single method and the senior management squashed it. This was 5 years ago. A couple others, people put things out both ways.
.
I believe you though.
stringdom t1_izl9g9d wrote
Exactly my point. Subjective opinions shape the material world. Subjectivity is the source of reality.
ShouldBeeStudying t1_izlh0ew wrote
Yeah man. Some people like it. Some don't. So it's a shame this otherwise fantastic tool shuts that out.
ShouldBeeStudying t1_izlml33 wrote
^^ Haha, someone doesn't like my experience
Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments