On 7 Mar 2008 17:40:08 GMT Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, no, it's to follow a particular person's choice out of the many > and various competing rules of "correct English usage". Personally, > I dislike double spaces after sentences, but it is not wrong to put > them there any more than it is wrong not to put them there. > Consistency is far more important (hence the rule, I presume).
Warning: Opinion follows possibly influenced by insufficient research. I have read the arguments about single or double spacing and find that they can be distilled down to the following: You should use double space for monospaced fonts and single for proportional. I reject this argument for two reasons. One is consistency. It is entirely possible for the same document to be rendered in multiple ways and you may not be aware of them ahead of time. The second is that it seems to me that programs that use proportional fonts should be able to make any space between sentences render properly by their own rules so the number of spaces should be irrelevant. I am not swayed by arguments that they don't handle this properly yet. The arguments for one over the other fall into these basic ones. Use double spaces to make the document easier to read, especially by people who read a lot and tend to skim to absorb as much information as possible. Use single space because it makes the document display nicer. This suggests to me that the schism is probably between two different types of people, text/information oriented and display/presentation oriented. I don't see any way to appeal to both. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
