I agree — and I'd go so far as to say that a study using a mono-spaced font can't be applied to daily, variable-width font life.
Oh man. I'm a proud member of the never-ever-ever-put-two-spaces-after-a-period camp, but a new study suggests two spaces in fact aids processing. New facts forced me to change my mind about drug legalization but I just don't think I can do this.https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2Fs13414-018-1527-6 …
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Yeah, I noted the criticisms in some followup tweets. Useless study.
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before, you were judging me and my two-spacing ways. now, you are judging yourself. just lighten up, be proud your sentences aren't run-on sentences that never end even after they've lost their purpose and included more points than anyone could care to read especially on a plat
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I'll see your plat, and raise by way of a condomium legal description which includes a separately-platted garage space....
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That’s me in the corner That’s me in the spotlight Losing my punctuation religion Have to shift from one space to two
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Bayou is doing this on purpose to punish me for my tyrannical ways
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There should be one space, but it should be twice as wide (or maybe a bit less)
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I can't help but notice that the abstract of the study is displayed using single spaces.
To be fair, though, the HTML specification says that multiple spaces in unformatted content must be collapsed to one. Between the W3C and the APA, who should win?https://stackoverflow.com/questions/433493/why-does-html-require-that-multiple-spaces-show-up-as-a-single-space-in-the-brow …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I'm all for a word processor that automatically increases the default space after a period. Otherwise, actually typing space twice introduces room for inconsistencies and adds needlessly to file size.
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2 spaces: drilled repeatedly during typing class > 35 years ago. Twitter and texting are exempt applications to this rule.
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I blame postmodernism.
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Seems intuitive doesn’t it that the brain would more easily recognize 2 spaces and better make the appropriate processing judgements.
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HALP MY WORLD HAS BEEN SHATTERED
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I follow the one-space-only rule because I'm a typophile & that's what typophiles do. It's based on purely on aesthetics, early 20C typographers' Holy Grail of "even grey tone", no white holes in the type block. The 19C custom of wider spaces between sentences is in fact logical.
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It's only one study. It might be wrong. Here's another very good rule to follow. Never, ever follow anything you find in the APA Style Manual.
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Apparently they didn’t test three?
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I actually support the two spaces after a period. I think President George W. Neither Weinstein would, too.pic.twitter.com/MdTSdPbhfu
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If they'd finished the sentence with his surname like a proper person, that would not be ambiguous
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That's true. And this is not the most egregious example of that problem. It's just the one I happened to read a few minutes before I saw this tweet.
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Two spaces. Duh! What is wrong with you people?
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