can we please have our double-space sentence spacing back?

[_Sethbag]

It's been my habit for many years now to separate the start of a new sentence, after the period ending the previous sentence, by two spaces, rather than one, to separate it a little. I think this is a pretty standard practice.

Well this board's rendering software now eliminates the double spacing and you now see sentences separated from each other by only a single space. It's very annoying, as it makes sentence breaks that much harder to see while scanning text. It's less readable.

Was it always this way and only recently it's begun to annoy me, or did some parameter of the software change recently?

Is it possible to get the software to stop rendering a double spaced sentence break as just one space?

[_keene]

It's been my habit for many years now to separate the start of a new sentence, after the period ending the previous sentence, by two spaces, rather than one, to separate it a little. I think this is a pretty standard practice.

Well this board's rendering software now eliminates the double spacing and you now see sentences separated from each other by only a single space. It's very annoying, as it makes sentence breaks that much harder to see while scanning text. It's less readable.

Was it always this way and only recently it's begun to annoy me, or did some parameter of the software change recently?

Is it possible to get the software to stop rendering a double spaced sentence break as just one space?

I would love to get rid of the whitespace trimming thing in this software, but I have no idea where it is. But yeah, it's not a new thing, it's always killed extra whitespace.

[_Pokatator]

With Sethbag on this! That is sometimes why I add ....... I just need a break in the type.

[_Runtu]

With Sethbag on this! That is sometimes why I add ....... I just need a break in the type.

Technically, there shouldn't be a full two spaces after a period. The software is supposed to add leading after a period so that the gap is larger than that between two words.

Putting in two spaces in a modern word processor with proportional fonts is going to look funny.

[_mormonmistress]

Runtu is right on the button. The standard nowadays is single spacing and most people who double space learnt to do so back in the days of typewriter. Less keystrokes is all good! When it comes to online content I think the biggest problem is that people don't use paragraphs, bullet points etc to break up the text and add that exra whitespace. They also use too many words. When we edit pages for usability online, we generally cut the content by half without losing any of the message being presented. Extraneous words are the biggest problem.

[_Pokatator]

Runtu is right on the button. The standard nowadays is single spacing and most people who double space learnt to do so back in the days of typewriter. Less keystrokes is all good! When it comes to online content I think the biggest problem is that people don't use paragraphs, bullet points etc to break up the text and add that exra whitespace. They also use too many words. When we edit pages for usability online, we generally cut the content by half without losing any of the message being presented. Extraneous words are the biggest problem.

I guess I am old school. I am from the mechanical typewriter days. I took shorthand too. I had "serious" crush on a girl in the 9th grade and it was the only class I could get with her. The crush was over in about 2 months, ......kids.

Your analysis of the problem is accurate.

[_Nephi]

Yeah, force of habit to put two spaces after a period. That is actually the correct way to type (or at least it was when I was taught how to type way back in the stone age). The elimination of the whitespace might be more to blame from the HTML than the software here, though, and how your browser renders it. Not really sure what to say other than, keep on typing with two spaces after the period. You know how to do it right...

[_Scottie]

Hmmm...I thought that using the   html tag would work, but it doesn't.

[_Sethbag]

Runtu, it was my understanding that horizontal spacing between consecutive characters was a kerning issue, and that leading was the spacing between lines.

One thing I've learnt to do in my online posting is break up my text into pseudo-paragraphs where I'll put in a couple of carriage returns to separate the text into different blocks, where in real life, if I were writing a paper I was going to print, I would actually have left some of the blocks larger, as single paragraphs.

I call my paragraphs "pseudo-paragraphs" because I'm breaking what I type up not in the traditional way paragraphs would be defined, but rather just to break up the text and make it easier to read on the screen.

I still haven't learnt to cut my text in half while still delivering my intended meaning, however. I type fairly quickly, and so I tend to type a lot while writing about what I'm thinking.

[_Yoda]

Hmmm...I thought that using the   html tag would work, but it doesn't.

It won't work in trying to post things here because this site is coded in PhP. It only allows you to use the BBCode.

You would have to be an admin to have access to utilizing the HTML coding, and it merely encases the PhP code.