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Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2?
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?"
Single space after a sentence, noob. Drives me nuts when I see double spaced bullshit. It's almost as bad as seeing more than 3 punctuation marks. If you use more than three you are a fucktard.
Right?
I mean, seriously, no body &*^&%$*^ cares.
If you do in fact care then I hope you die from a million paper cuts.
Some people have to have rule for everything and then they go around trying to force the sane people to comply with them. I wonder how such people manage to reproduce. Do they have a rule for how often to do it? How far to put it in? Use a metronome to comply with the insertion frequency rules?
This? This? is the kind of crap that the /. editors choose to post?
I'm sorry I bothered to come here today.
Stonewolf
Well.... there goes my "Excellent" karma...