# Spacing test **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 25, 2001, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spacing-test/78092 "2001-08-25T14:45:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spacing-test/78092/1 "2001-08-25T14:45:30Z")
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 ? Here’sXaXsentence.XHere’sXanother. GrabXyourXgear.XXRunXforXcover. BiteXyourXbuttons,XXXEatXyourXshoes. DoesXthisXXboardXXXchangeXXXXspacingXXXXXrulesX? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spacing-test/78092/2 "2001-08-25T14:55:08Z")
Why yes it does ! It automatically makes the folks in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=83668) look like poseurs. ---
**Author:** ![jcgmoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@jcgmoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jcgmoi)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spacing-test/78092/3 "2001-08-25T15:05:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Squink \* > **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 ? > Here’sXaXsentence.XHere’sXanother. > GrabXyourXgear.XXRunXforXcover. > BiteXyourXbuttons,XXXEatXyourXshoes. > DoesXthisXXboardXXXchangeXXXXspacingXXXXXrulesX?** ```auto Here's a sentence using op 'CODE'. Without, your tables will implode. Your ASCII animals will stop Compressing if you use 'CODE' op. ``` ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spacing-test/78092/4 "2001-08-25T15:25:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spacing-test/78092/5 "2001-08-25T17:03:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spacing-test/78092/6 "2001-08-25T17:14:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spacing-test/78092/7 "2001-08-25T17:40:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > \*\*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. \*\* Isn’t the current general rule of thumb that proportionally-spaced fonts don’t require additional spaces, but fixed-width fonts do?