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How many spaces do you put after a period?

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Re: Spaces after a period
« Reply #15 on: February 11, 2007, 01:34:30 am »
I'm somewhat curious. I've always put 2-spaces after a period, but in my new job the editor tells us to do 1-space, and gets mad if you don't.

In the past month, I've successfully altered my 2-space habit, so I almost always use one space now. But it seems weird, since I always learned 2.

In every English class I've taken, it's 2 spaces at the end of a sentence, one space when you're using an abbreviation (such as Mr.), unless it's immediately followed by other punctuation, such as comma or parenthesis.
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Re: Spaces after a period
« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2007, 03:39:25 am »
I'm somewhat curious. I've always put 2-spaces after a period, but in my new job the editor tells us to do 1-space, and gets mad if you don't.

In the past month, I've successfully altered my 2-space habit, so I almost always use one space now. But it seems weird, since I always learned 2.

In every English class I've taken, it's 2 spaces at the end of a sentence, one space when you're using an abbreviation (such as Mr.), unless it's immediately followed by other punctuation, such as comma or parenthesis.
same here.

however, it sees that chicago styles usesd only one spcaes for published documetns.
maybe i guess i should change then so that i work in there

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Re: Spaces after a period
« Reply #17 on: February 11, 2007, 05:47:03 am »
The way that I was tought was it was two spaces on typewriters and one space on the computer. Most of the word processors make it more clear that it's a period and the end of a sentance, I've noticed.

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Re: Spaces after a period
« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2007, 11:34:12 am »
Uhh, this is not a subject I have ever heard anyone bring up in my life. Your editor should be flogged until he finds more important things to care about.
Haha, while you have a valid point, when documents are authored by more than one person, a consistent style has to be used, otherwise it'll look funny.

It's like, when you're programming something on a team, you should have a consistent programming style (in terms of spacing and commenting), which helps in the end. Makes it easier to edit others' code and such.

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Re: Spaces after a period
« Reply #19 on: February 14, 2007, 04:06:24 pm »
Amalgamating writing and programming styles can be artful. I'd rather see code with different programming styles :P

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Re: Spaces after a period
« Reply #20 on: February 14, 2007, 04:17:08 pm »
Amalgamating writing and programming styles can be artful. I'd rather see code with different programming styles :P

It may be refreshing initially, but I doubt you'd keep that opinion after a few weeks on a programming job.

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Re: Spaces after a period
« Reply #21 on: February 14, 2007, 09:22:04 pm »
Personally I use just one, never seen anyone use two (or just never noticed I guess).

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Re: Spaces after a period
« Reply #22 on: February 14, 2007, 10:18:29 pm »
Ender will enjoy reading the new code merged into JavaOp. iago's style and mine are mostly the same (I pretty much learned from him), but somewhat different.
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Re: Spaces after a period
« Reply #23 on: February 14, 2007, 11:33:52 pm »
I never had anyone argue with how many spaces I put after a period (I put one). No one ever specified how many I should have either...

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Re: Spaces after a period
« Reply #24 on: February 14, 2007, 11:48:16 pm »
Interesting!  And quite ironic of Ender to claim that the double space is being eliminated by the "computer age."  I have never been told anything about whether we should have a single space or a double space at the end of a sentence.  I guess it's not terribly noticeable in handwriting, so I never really thought about it.   
It would be unnatural just to "guess" that there would be two spaces, so without thinking about it at all, when I first started word-processing (I was about 14... so computers really weren't part of my punctuation education :P) I assumed there was one space at the end of sentences, but I noticed that I was always corrected!  And since I type quickly, I got in an habit of quickly tapping the space bar twice at the end of any sentence closing punctuation.  So MS Word drilled this convention into my writing, and I have followed it since.  And I don't think I've thought about it since I was about 14, when I was forced to change! :O

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Re: Spaces after a period
« Reply #25 on: February 15, 2007, 09:21:47 pm »
Interesting! And quite ironic of Ender to claim that the double space is being eliminated by the "computer age." I have never been told anything about whether we should have a single space or a double space at the end of a sentence. I guess it's not terribly noticeable in handwriting, so I never really thought about it. 
It would be unnatural just to "guess" that there would be two spaces, so without thinking about it at all, when I first started word-processing (I was about 14... so computers really weren't part of my punctuation education :P) I assumed there was one space at the end of sentences, but I noticed that I was always corrected! And since I type quickly, I got in an habit of quickly tapping the space bar twice at the end of any sentence closing punctuation. So MS Word drilled this convention into my writing, and I have followed it since. And I don't think I've thought about it since I was about 14, when I was forced to change! :O

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Re: Spaces after a period
« Reply #26 on: February 15, 2007, 10:47:31 pm »
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Re: Spaces after a period
« Reply #27 on: February 16, 2007, 12:11:36 am »
Uh, I've been assaulted from two different teachers for doing it two different ways, I don't know what to believe.
 
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Re: Spaces after a period
« Reply #28 on: February 16, 2007, 12:45:31 am »
Two spaces.