Here’s a sentence. Here’s another.
Grab your gear. Run for cover.
Bite your buttons, Eat your shoes.
Does this board change spacing rules ?
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GrabXyourXgear.XXRunXforXcover.
BiteXyourXbuttons,XXXEatXyourXshoes.
DoesXthisXXboardXXXchangeXXXXspacingXXXXXrulesX?
Why yes it does !
It automatically makes the folks in this thread look like poseurs.
Here's a sentence using op 'CODE'.
Without, your tables will implode.
Your ASCII animals will stop
Compressing if you use 'CODE' op.
It’s not the board so much as HTML that turns all whitespace into a single space. The board just does nothing to fix it, such as turn additional spaces into like UBB used to.
I don’t know why I always make sure to put two spaces after the end of a sentence, as a) it’s wrong and b) it doesn’t show up anyway. But I always do it.
They got to you, too, waterj2? Why do so many people think that it’s wrong to put two spaces after a sentence? Everyone knew that that was the proper way to do it, until MS Word grammar checker came along. Doesn’t Billy-Boy have enough power as it is, without making him supreme arbiter of the English language?
Two spaces makes logical sence. The purpose of spaces is to introduce a break of some sort in an utterance, and the break between sentences is a larger one than that between words.
I wouldn’t believe it if it was just MS that said so. But since LaTeX only requires one space after a period, I have decided it’s correct. Of course, it tosses in a little extra space, unless you tell it not to. But not a whole extra space. I always trust LaTeX on matters typographical. Also, looking at printed material, there is only a little more than one space after a period.
Isn’t the current general rule of thumb that proportionally-spaced fonts don’t require additional spaces, but fixed-width fonts do?