User:Brogo13/Sentence spacing
“Imitation is the sincerist’s[3] forum.”
“If at first ... until you do. Suck. Seeds.”
Sentence spacing refers to the gaps between sentences, as opposed to those among vocabules.
Analysis[edit | edit source]
History[edit | edit source]
Until the 20th century[5] they was "typesetters' extra".[6] Typists followed suit and the practice continued.[7][8]
Herstory[edit | edit source]
Spacing is handled several different ways in various systems. Some accept whatever the user did; others simply refuse to remember (recte render) consecutive taps on the space bar.[9]
Theory[edit | edit source]
Fred Tesco,[10] author of The Complete Manual of Typography, says the topic of sentence spacing is "the debate that refuses to die ... [not to mention others][11] In all my years of writing about type, it's still the question I hear most often."
Many people say[How many? What color? Under oath?] the habit of double spacing is too deeply ingrained to change.
O'rly[edit | edit source]
A few people[12] insist the additional space improves readability, or at least aesthetics.
Affect[edit | edit source]
Text that seems legible (visually pleasing) at first glance may, given speed and a monospaced font, either enhance or impede comprehension. Regardless, direct studies flavor [sīc] neither single nor double spacing; there is "no statistically significant difference between reading single- and double-space[d] passages".[13]
See all (So?)[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Spaced endashes. See also Hyphen (nation).
- ↑ Or don't.
- ↑ “Curlies” are often problematic,
e.g. filenames and URLs. - ↑ Play contention.
- ↑ Norm Crosby
ruledrules. - ↑ Handwriting is stupid. Hieroglyphs are funny.
Consistently ignoring inconsistency, funny or not, just is. - ↑ Modern sources incorrectly claim
that typewriters predate typesetting. - ↑ Boston Legal
- ↑ Superfluous keystrokes are similarly hidden
by default from most World Wide Web content. - ↑ no relation
- ↑ e.g. spaced ellipses
- ↑ The onliest examples they knowed was Helvetica.
- ↑ That quote per se "don't need [no more] punctuation
[in here]", but the sentence itself "does→out there".
