But nobody disputes that additional space after a period is a good thing. The point is just that with modern software you don’t need to add two space characters to achieve that. In a similar way you shouldn’t use a blank line between paragraphs, but let software styles handle it
Science can blow your mind sometimes, and this time it has come down on the side of *two spaces after a period*. https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-018-1527-6 …pic.twitter.com/bRMN3V7Zfk
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Worse, in their focus on monitor brand+size, I had entirely missed that the study was done w/ 14-pt Courier (New). Saying it totally invalidates the results would be overstrong, but a choice to test a monospaced font over a proportional one drastically hurts its applicability.pic.twitter.com/S0PZhAxKci
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It just reconfirms what we already knew from the typewriter era this rule comes from.
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Dammit after 30 years i just gave in to the one spacers. I'm still hanging on to the soft g in .gif though.
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Steve Wilhite, the creator of the GIF, told the NY Times how annoyed he was at the debate over the pronunciation of GIF: “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft 'G,' pronounced 'jif.'
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Jraphics
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Those are graphics created by dinosaurs.
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Those are bitemaps.
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That's the dinosaur edition Google made to show where a dinosaur finds most tasty on a person.
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If you're writing this study, why wouldn't you put two spaces after the periods in you abstract?
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HTML collapses all space down to one space. It's considered typeset so you don't see the two spaces.
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You must use period, space, non-breaking space. It's much more readable.
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I feel that nbsp is looked down on; I imagine there's a better way to work it through CSS or perhaps choice of font.
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The trouble is that nbsp (used in this way) confuses content with presentation, which is something people have been trying to get away from for...almost a quarter of a century now. Still not quite there yet.
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Haha! This is so meta. Is a space content...?
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I actually think about things like this because...I'm not normal. nbsp could be content if it described an important connection between two words, but if it's used purely for layout purposes, it's not. Unless you're discussing the uses of nbsp, in which case....
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