User:Brogo13/Sentence spacing

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Get over it ...[1]
Microsoft can[2] – optionally – highlight each extraneous space as an error.

“These are suggestions, not ‘policy’, and decidedly NOT authoritative here.”

– Dis' sayin'[3]

“Imitation is the sincerist’s forum.”

“If at first ... until you do. Suck. Seeds.”

– Brogo13, bless his heart

Sentence spacing refers to the gaps between sentences, as opposed to those among vocabules.

Analysis

Main article: Elemenopy

History

Until the 20th century[5] they was "typesetters' extra".[6] Typists followed suit and the practice continued.[7][8]

Herstory

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

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

A few people[12] insist the additional space improves readability, or at least aesthetics.

Affect

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]

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  1. ↑ ← "Except with very good reason ..." or don't.
  2. ↑ Spaced endashes. See also Hyphen (nation).
  3. ↑ “Curlies” are often problematic, e.g. filenames and URLs.
  4. ↑ Play contention.
  5. ↑ Norm Crosby ruled rules.
  6. ↑ Handwriting is stupid. Hieroglyphs are funny.
    Consistently ignoring inconsistency, funny or not, just is.
  7. ↑ Typesetting predated typewriters.
  8. ↑ Boston Legal
  9. ↑ Superfluous keystrokes are similarly hidden
    by default from most World Wide Web content.
  10. ↑ no relation
  11. ↑ e.g. spaced ellipses
  12. ↑ "The onliest examples they knowed was Helvetica."
  13. ↑ "That quote [per se] 'don't need [no more] punctuation
    [in here]', but the sentence itself 'does → out there'."
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