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- monospaced0
They're everywhere!
- alicetheblue0
but why would anyone actually bother to go into options or grammar
in Word and change the spacing from one to two???- boredom and pokemon night down at the comic store was cancelled7point34
- lolalicetheblue
- because they're idiots, that's whymonospaced
- magnificent_ruin0
thank god for search and replace
- Jaline0
"The only reason that two spaces were used after a period during the 'typewriter' age was because original typewriters had monospaced fonts -- the extra space was needed for the eye to pick up on the beginning of a new sentence. That need is negated w/proportional space type, hence it is the typographic standard."
- Horp0
Its a word processor convention, not a typeseter's method.
- set0
get a life.
- moamoa0
... (wrong)
... (correct)- I know how to type an elipsesmonospaced
- naaa that was an insider. for someone else ;)moamoa
- I have TextExpander auto-replace to make ... :)ismith
- monospaced0
Jaline, that is 100% correct.
It is the fact that a practice from the "typewriter age" is still in use today that irks me. A lot of people out there committing this typographic crime have never used a typewriter in their entire lives.
- monospaced0
right, doesn't Word underline double spaces as errors?
- utopian0
. comma, period.
- neverblink0
I hate [space][comma][space]