Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? 814
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from the how-about-none dept.
from the how-about-none dept.
An anonymous reader noted an epic battle is waging, the likes of which has not been seen since we all agreed that tab indenting for code was properly two spaces. He writes "Do you hit the space bar two times between sentences, or only one? I admit, I'm from the typewriter age that hits it twice, but the article has pretty much convinced me to change. My final concern: how will my word processor know the difference between an abbr. and the end of a sentence (so it can stretch the sentence for me)? I don't use a capital letter for certain technical words (even when they start a sentence), making it both harder to programmatically detect a new sentence and more important to do so. What does the Slashdot community think?"
What does slashdot say? (Score:5, Funny)
[Insert one thousand opinions here]
The only one that matters: Is it still readable?
We have bigger problems in the world than "one space or two" ... for example, people's atrocious speling.
Re:False assumption (Score:5, Funny)
It's a well-known fact that God uses 3-space tabs [gnu.org]. I don't want to go to hell, so that's what I use, but your eternal soul is your own call, buddy.
this is a serious question? (Score:1, Funny)
I don't know what about an IBM model M and a selectric keyboard implies that there's any difference at all in how you use them. Standard typography has evolved to two spaces between sentences, PERIOD. This is not up for discussion, nor should it be. There's no significantly new information that implies that this should change, except that more and more people are freaking lazy, and language should not evolve because of laziness. Man up, hit that spacebar twice, and quit whining
The Slashdot Community Thinks... (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously, dude. We're starting to worry about you.
One (Score:5, Funny)
During the early area of the internet (around 1990) i held courses and taught new users, how to use the "blank" correctly. Rules were:
People who didn't followed the rule were convicted for excessive blanking.... at least here in germany.
CU, Martin
Ok (Score:5, Funny)
Rule #2: Double Tap (Score:1, Funny)
As Zombieland stated, Rule #2 is Double Tap. I think that makes the answer pretty clear.
How to get out of work on a progeamming team (Score:5, Funny)
Ask "Should I use spaces or tabs for newlines?"
3. Hang out and serf web.
4. Discussion settled? Ask "Should there be brackets around code even if there's only one line? Like this:
If( foo == true)
a=x;
Or is it:
If( foo = true)
{
a=x;
}
sit back and surf web for a few more hours.
Re:What battle!!!! (Score:1, Funny)
Yes - but is it one bollock or two bollocks?
Semantic markup (Score:5, Funny)
<posting target-moderation="funny">
<sentence tone="exclamation">silly boy</sentence>
<sentence>you <contraction>should not</contraction> be mixing content with layout</sentence>
<sentence>use an <acronym>extended markup language</acronym> schema that removes the ambiguity and allows the viewer to determine <alternative-list><item>his</item><item>her</item></alternative-list> preferred layout and punctuation <aside>or even see it presented in <abbrev>text message</abbrev>format allowing accessibility by teenage people</aside> </sentence>
</posting>
Re:Monospaced or proportional (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Quick fix (Score:4, Funny)
Find: ".__"
Replace "._"
Find morse code W and replace with morse code A? Ahy aould I aant to do that? (bad) fake british accent?
Re:How to get out of work on a progeamming team (Score:4, Funny)
Neither. Depending on the system you're working on, use either a carriage return, a line feed, or a line feed followed by a carriage return. Fortunately the return key usually generates the correct newline marker for your system.
Re:What does slashdot say? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Two spaces, bitches. (Score:5, Funny)
Not only that, they're so bad I can't even see the apostrophe in your sentence.
One of the many deficiencies of HTML.
Consulting the Book of Armaments (Score:5, Funny)
Three is the number of the counting, and the counting of the number shall be three.
Re:Two spaces, bitches. (Score:5, Funny)
End of discussion.
Awesome.
Next topic: emacs or vi.
Re:The Slashdot Community Thinks... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh damn, that's where I went wrong. I thought I was supposed to find a dog and adopt a girlfriend. The latter encounter didn't end well.
XML To The Rescue (Score:4, Funny)
<sentence>
<word>The</word>
<word>only</word>
<word>way</word>
<word>to</word>
<word>fix</word>
<word>this</word>
<word>is</word>
<word>with</word>
<word>XML</sentence>
<sentence>
<word>Totally</word>
<word>human</word>
<word>readable</sentence>
</paragraph>
Re:How to get out of work on a progeamming team (Score:3, Funny)
That only works when there's not a coding standard in place at said company. A good coding standard covers all those points and much, much more, leaving developers to debate the problems that actually matter to the company.
I read this as "...leaving developers to create the problems that actually matter to the company." which makes your comment absolutely hilarious.
Re:False assumption (Score:5, Funny)
And you'll get monospaced characters also. Speaking of which, comments in code are monospaced. Are two spaces after a sentence more correct there? Personally, I think it looks too expanded.
Re:What does slashdot say? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:One space (Score:2, Funny)
Re:False assumption (Score:3, Funny)
I use four-tab spaces. ...and write *very* concise code, or it won't fit on the lines.
Re:False assumption (Score:2, Funny)
we could simply write software to be intelligent enough to automatically add a space between sentences when it detects a period-space-word starting with a capital letter
Mr. John Smith
Ms. Jane Doe
Dr. Thomas
W. Main Street.
Re:False assumption (Score:2, Funny)