robby
September 24, 2010, 6:24pm
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gotpasswords:
There’s a nice little reference book on how to make that leap from typing to typography that came out about 20 years ago. The title sums it up nicely:
The Mac is Not a Typewriter
Buy it. Read it. Learn it. Love it.
Maybe, just maybe, if you get this book, you’ll not only drop that vulgar habit of double-spacing between sentences, but you’ll develop a yearning to do some kerning, you won’t be so afraid of white space, and you’ll never leave a hanging orphan again.
Adapted from this same book:
One space between sentences
(I’ve been linking to this page for nearly a decade now in threads like these. I actually read it first in The Mac Is Not a Typewriter , by Robin Williams, 1990.)
From one of the previous threads on this topic:
…IMHO, two spaces between sentences doesn’t look better or enhance clarity, which is probably why virtually every bit of typeset print that everyone here has ever read in their lives only has a single space between sentences. Look at any professionally-produced magazine or book if you don’t believe me.
You only see two spaces in monospaced, typed documents and word-processed documents by people who still think that the modern word processor is a typewriter.