[–] david927 4y ago ↗ And I do that too. It was common in the days of typewriters and lingered for some people.A friend at my first workplace after college told me I was "doing it wrong" by using only one space -- and I can't go back now. I am not Satoshi. [–] wrycoder 4y ago ↗ Two spaces after the period looks better to my eye. One space looks cramped.Plus, it's easier to find the end of a sentence visually.If you go back to older typeset documents - Ben Franklin's, say - you'll usually see more space at the end of sentences.(I've studied typography and I've hand-set type. I think it's a design choice.)
[–] wrycoder 4y ago ↗ Two spaces after the period looks better to my eye. One space looks cramped.Plus, it's easier to find the end of a sentence visually.If you go back to older typeset documents - Ben Franklin's, say - you'll usually see more space at the end of sentences.(I've studied typography and I've hand-set type. I think it's a design choice.)
[–] QuarterRoy 4y ago ↗ Anyone who was college educated in the 80s and 90s does this because that’s how we were taught to type and all of our papers had to be double-spaced.
[–] 1970-01-01 4y ago ↗ I'm going to flag this. You can read Elon tweets and disprove this theory in seconds.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 21.9 ms ] threadA friend at my first workplace after college told me I was "doing it wrong" by using only one space -- and I can't go back now. I am not Satoshi.
Plus, it's easier to find the end of a sentence visually.
If you go back to older typeset documents - Ben Franklin's, say - you'll usually see more space at the end of sentences.
(I've studied typography and I've hand-set type. I think it's a design choice.)