User:Brogo13/Sentence spacing

Get over it.

Microsoft can – optionally – highlight each extraneous space as an error.

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

~ Dis' sayin'

“Imitation is the sincerist’s forum.”

~ Johann Lippowitz

“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

History

Until the 20th century they was "typesetters' extra". Typists followed suit and the practice continued.

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.

Theory

Fred Tesco, author of The Complete Manual of Typography, says the topic of sentence spacing is "the debate that refuses to die ... [not to mention others] In all my years of writing about type, it's still the question I hear most often."

Many people say the habit of double spacing is too deeply ingrained to change.

O'rly

A few people 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".

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