I just noticed...
Jul 1, 2022 15:04:22 #
[quote=Dannj][quote=JD750]I am in the camp of placing two spaces after a period. I just noticed UHH removes the double spaces.[/
It doesn’t look like they removed a space in your post.[/quote]
I had a double space following the period. It's gone when reading the on-line post. Interestingly, when editing the reply, within the reply quote the double space appears. Until send is pressed. Methinks it has something to do with HTML coding.
It doesn’t look like they removed a space in your post.[/quote]
I had a double space following the period. It's gone when reading the on-line post. Interestingly, when editing the reply, within the reply quote the double space appears. Until send is pressed. Methinks it has something to do with HTML coding.
Jul 1, 2022 15:18:02 #
Daryls
Loc: Waco, TX
rlv567 wrote:
Just out of curiosity, I tried the "spaces" in Microsoft Word. Under any circumstance, creating, saving and reopening, Word holds whatever number of spaces I use. I tried one, two, three and four.
Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City
Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City
Loren,
That is because in your version of MS Word you have the "grammar settings" under "punctuation convention" marked as "don't check". You may leave it that way or set it to identify one or two spaces following punctuation. You can find the setting under OPTIONS, PROOFING, GRAMMAR SETTINGS, PUNCTUATION CONVENTION. There are a lot of other settings you may change to reflect the particular style of writing you prefer.
Daryl
Jul 1, 2022 15:18:19 #
rlv567 wrote:
I will NOT follow anybody's style guide!!! I will write however I wish at the time I'm writing!!! The lemmings all can go over the cliff for all I care, and good riddance. It probably will not be long before we're told that a particular writing style is "offensive" to somebody, and you will be pilloried if you happened to have used it 20 years ago!
Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City
Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City
Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City
Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City
😉🍻👍👍
Jul 1, 2022 15:18:19 #
Dannj wrote:
I think it looks like a double space after the period in your post. I just put a double space in this post and it looks the same as yours.
As someone else stated, if I Quote Reply, the double space shows up in the editable text, but when posted it is converted to one.
I entered five spaces after each comma in the sentence above. Do a Quote Reply and see if there is one or five in the editable text. The parser that creates the code for displaying what is "Sent" removes extra spaces.
Jul 1, 2022 15:21:35 #
JD750 wrote:
I had a double space following the period. It's gone when reading the on-line post. Interestingly, when editing the reply, within the reply quote the double space appears. Until send is pressed. Methinks it has something to do with HTML coding.
The parser that creates the code for displaying what is "Sent" removes extra spaces.
See my post above.
Jul 1, 2022 15:49:42 #
Jimmy T wrote:
"I learned on an early IBM electric in High S... (show quote)
Hell, Rural Western Kentucky got "tricity" in the 30's.
And we had a TV in the early 50s - of course, the antenna was on a phone pole in the backyard the first stations were so far away. We got 4 stations ABC, CBS, NBC and one independent that showed a lot of old movies and cartoons.Jul 1, 2022 16:14:08 #
JD750 wrote:
I am in the camp of placing two spaces after a period. I just noticed UHH removes the double spaces.
Two periods
Too much work 
Jul 1, 2022 16:17:13 #
joecichjr wrote:
Two periods Too much work
Too much work No, two spaces.....
Jul 1, 2022 16:28:47 #
Minitman
Loc: Centreville, Virginia
According to the book "The Mac Is Not a Typewriter", typists use double space as they were taught. Type setters use single space. Pick up any book (not self published) and you will see single space.
Jul 1, 2022 16:44:07 #
robertjerl wrote:
Hell, Rural Western Kentucky got "tricity" in the 30's. And we had a TV in the early 50s - of course, the antenna was on a phone pole in the backyard the first stations were so far away. We got 4 stations ABC, CBS, NBC and one independent that showed a lot of old movies and cartoons.
And we had a TV in the early 50s - of course, the antenna was on a phone pole in the backyard the first stations were so far away. We got 4 stations ABC, CBS, NBC and one independent that showed a lot of old movies and cartoons.Similar thing in Central Illinois were I grew up in the last century. Broadcast towers were 50 miles away. Our "independent" station showed mostly "snow'. LOL.
Jul 1, 2022 17:29:38 #
From my aging memory, the two spaces were standard with typewriters. They used a standard width for each letter. To better indicate the end of a sentence, the extra "white space" was a good idea. (We scan as we read, and that extra clue made it easier to comprehend the sentence.) Yes, I still do it! However, it is less critical now since the computer kerns all the letters (see example of kerning below), so a single white space is still noticeable. But I agree, two spaces is still better!! I am using it now as I type, and will see what happens when this gets posted.
Stay safe,
Bob
Here are 10 letters on each row.
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Stay safe,
Bob
Here are 10 letters on each row.
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Jul 1, 2022 17:37:22 #
Daryls wrote:
Pendennis,
I did the same in high school in the late 60's in Chicago. We followed the same rules because the type fonts we used were of a fixed space. Later, I moved on to the 1906-1910 platen presses to print the type setups instead of going to the linotype machines to set type automatically. It was some fun times indeed.
Daryl
Daryl
I did the same in high school in the late 60's in Chicago. We followed the same rules because the type fonts we used were of a fixed space. Later, I moved on to the 1906-1910 platen presses to print the type setups instead of going to the linotype machines to set type automatically. It was some fun times indeed.
Daryl
Daryl
Daryl, we used a small flatbed press for page proofing. Our "production" was done on one of three Chandler platen presses in our shop. My first year, we printed the monthly school newspaper on a wide-platen Chandler press. It took about four days to set the type, edit/proof, lock down the page set in the print frames, and then we'd take turns running the job. I didn't use linotype until I got an after-school job at a local shop in high school, mostly because our school system didn't have the money for the machines in junior high schools.
I drifted off toward college prep, but I still have great memories of "real printing".
Jul 1, 2022 19:33:17 #
TreborLow wrote:
...the computer kerns all the letters (see example of kerning below)...
Keming:
The result of improper Kerning.
Jul 1, 2022 20:19:18 #
Minitman wrote:
According to the book "The Mac Is Not a Typewriter", typists use double space as they were taught. Type setters use single space. Pick up any book (not self published) and you will see single space.
That is a book I got when I first started using a computer (there was also a PC version.) Like others, I was taught in high school typing class to use two spaces, but in trying some samples and printing them out, I learned that I did prefer the look of one space when writing on a computer.
Jul 1, 2022 22:04:54 #
I am sure in the old days typed text had 2 spaces between sentences. But with word processors it seems one is now standard, probably because because published books and articles are that way. I had to learn 1 not 2 when I used MSWord to write my book which was edited and published by Archway Publishing.
Recovery from Anger Addiction by Verryl V. Fosnight
Recovery from Anger Addiction by Verryl V. Fosnight
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