Sentence Spacing

Vonhelmet said:
Real men double space after a full stop.
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My dude :mad:

@Maccy

Son, we live in a world that has spaces, and those spaces have to be guarded by men with spacebars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know; that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved spaces. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, *saves lives*.
You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that spacebar. You need me on that spacebar. We use words like double tap, SS, and space loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending punctuation. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you double space and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a *damn* what you think you are entitled to!
 
[FnG]magnolia said:
To everyone else who single spaces, where on earth did you school? The other place?
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Think of every sentence you've ever typed.

Think of every time you've hit the spacebar twice when once would have been enough.

Think of each of those microseconds individually and then together as a whole.

Think of all that time wasted.

Think of the daunting realisation that you've lost so many precious moments of your short existence over something so pointless.

I don't think I could live with myself.
 
Code: 
Sentence yadda yadda.  Double space.

Sentence yadda yadda. Single space.

Is this what it means?
 
I've heard of it. Always seemed silly and arbitrary. I think it was one of those things that somebody decided was the right way to do something and went about saying it was a "rule". Gained traction with the sort of people who like correcting others with the "right" way to do something and then faded away again because it had no value. Or maybe it was just guidelines for some large company. There are just a few pockets of people here and there who always thought they'd been taught some correct practice of the English language. I don't know where it comes from. Possibly guidelines from some typewriter manufacturer back in the day when fonts were all higgledy-piggledy and extra spaces actually helped.

I wasn't being facetious, earlier. It's a display preference. If it's to be implemented it should be done at that level, not actually typed.
 
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