Re: End-of-sentence spacing

[John Gardner]

>
> It was neither the only, first, last, or most vituperous critique of Two
> Spaces: There has been a rising tide of condemnation of the practice in the
> media, as shown by Googling "two spaces after period".
>

I condemn two spaces, period.

Worst\. Indentation style\. Ever.

On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 09:45, Dave Kemper <saint.snit@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/20/20, Dorai Sitaram via <groff@gnu.org> wrote:
> > It was neither the only, first, last, or most vituperous critique of Two
> > Spaces: There has been a rising tide of condemnation of the practice in
> the
> > media, as shown by Googling "two spaces after period".
>
> As a general rule, you can gauge how seriously to take someone's
> critique of any topic by calculating the ratio of the topic's relative
> importance in the world to the commenter's level of vituperousness.
> The more shrilly someone rails against something of such little
> consequence, the more safely you can ignore them. :-)
>
> You'll also observe that a lot of opinionated people fail to
> distinguish between input convention and typesetting (probably trained
> by Word that these aren't separate topics), or misrepresent the
> history of the practice (often with variations on the demonstrably
> false claim that wider sentence spacing originated with typewriters
> and/or monospace typefaces).
>
>