lexyeevee

troublesome fox girl

hello i like to make video games and stuff and also have a good time on the computer. look @ my pinned for some of the video games and things. sometimes i am horny on @squishfox



once again using my many years of programming expertise to induce renpy to perform arcane magicks such as "double space between sentences" and "change poses at the correct time"


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in reply to @lexyeevee's post:

FYI, in case your reason for wanting "double space between sentences" is to conform to a heuristic you learned a long time ago and have been following out of a sense of duty...

The current opinion among professional typesetters is that using two spaces after a period is a faux-pas when using proportionally spaced fonts. It's a holdover from when typing meant using a typewriter (and therefore monospaced characters), but everyone seemed to cargo-cult that practice forwards to typing on a computer.

i've heard this a thousand times before but it makes precisely zero sense and seems to be a cargo-culted explanation. you don't really need to double-space on a typewriter because it's monospace and a period + space are already two columns wide, visibly distinct from a single space. in a proportional font a period is generally only two pixels so an extra space helps visually separate sentences

and no i do it because i like it and i think it looks better

Okay, carry on!

I have no particular opinions on how someone should type on a typewriter or whether two spaces is "correct" in that context. That said, if you look at documents typed on typewriters, there was absolutely a trend towards people using two spaces.

The additional context I've heard is that typesetting style guides of the time called for an em-space (i.e. space as wide as the letter m) between sentences, and an en-space between words. An em-space is generally double the width of an en-space, so I can see how that got reinterpreted as "use two spaces after a period" when shifting contexts from movable-type (which had variable notions of what a space was), to typewriters (which didn't).

What I can't answer is, why do modern style guides and older style guides disagree on what looks good (uniform width spacing vs variable width spacing)?