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mossworth · 2 years ago

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I probably should've written what I put in the tags into the body of the post but I was too far in

ppl have made fun of me for double spacing after end punctuation so i want to know if theres anyone else who learned that ur supposed to double space after end punctuation when u learned typing

example: This is cool. You are cool, too!

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#i completely understand where the confusion comes from!#double spacing is an old technique we kept around from the typewriting days #like QWERTY keyboards and what have you #well anyhow - standard typeface on typewriters were monospaced and didn't have the capability to take into account the amount of space #space needed between sentences to be legible #so it was standard practice to double space after the end of a sentence to keep it tidy.#Nowadays the standard typefaces we use aren't monospaced and do take into account legibility between sentences #so there's no longer a need for double spacing.#Except (like with QWERTY keyboards and old typing practices that may or may not be the most comfortable or efficient) the practice stuck #around in old typing curriculums (even being taught in some schools to this day) meaning quite a lot of people grew up learning what's #now an outdated practice #whereas newer typing curriculum tends to cut it #leaving two groups of people - folks who learned that double spacing is necessary and folks who just never learned it at all #(or the secret third group - people who double spaced who quit the habit)#Ultimately it's a harmless habit! But as someone who works in publishing circles #I have seen an uptick in publishers specifically stating they do not want to see double spacing in the manuscripts they receive.

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