> > It was neither the only, first, last, or most vituperous critique of Two > Spaces: There has been a rising tide of condemnation of the practice in the > media, as shown by Googling "two spaces after period". >
I condemn two spaces, period. Worst\. Indentation style\. Ever. On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 09:45, Dave Kemper <saint.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/20/20, Dorai Sitaram via <groff@gnu.org> wrote: > > It was neither the only, first, last, or most vituperous critique of Two > > Spaces: There has been a rising tide of condemnation of the practice in > the > > media, as shown by Googling "two spaces after period". > > As a general rule, you can gauge how seriously to take someone's > critique of any topic by calculating the ratio of the topic's relative > importance in the world to the commenter's level of vituperousness. > The more shrilly someone rails against something of such little > consequence, the more safely you can ignore them. :-) > > You'll also observe that a lot of opinionated people fail to > distinguish between input convention and typesetting (probably trained > by Word that these aren't separate topics), or misrepresent the > history of the practice (often with variations on the demonstrably > false claim that wider sentence spacing originated with typewriters > and/or monospace typefaces). > >
