Comments on: everyone has a right to their beliefs

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Mon, 23 Dec 2013 02:35:21 +0000

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Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:31:28 +0000

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By: Tom

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:18:28 +0000

James Adams: indeed — this is something that HTML renderers all do. Unless you explicitly use the character code for each space, multiple pieces of whitespace will be collapsed into one. ]]>

By: James Adams

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:25:15 +0000

Spot on. You do realize however that the text of your post is formatted using single spacing between sentences? I assume that WordPress or whatever software you’re using for publishing your blog posts is enforcing that bonehead convention and you have no way around it. In any event thanks for a well written argument for the logic of double spaces between sentences (and logical comma/punctuation placement), kudos! ]]>

By: JohnP

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:48:20 +0000

I realize I’m very late to this post, but now that I’ve found it, I must thank you for taking up the cudgels to defend two spaces between sentences. Not only are the one-spacers misguided for all the reasons you’ve given, but the one-space “rule” is itself a relatively recent fad even in professional type design! If you go back 50 years or so, you will find plenty of books from reputable publishers that clearly have a lot more space between sentences than between words. The farther back you look, the more common that becomes. In addition, the 1973 edition of _Words into Type_ (a well-respected authority among editors of a certain age) suggests that the space between sentences should be three times the space between words in most contexts (specifically, one em versus a third of an em). ]]>

By: Tom

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:16:30 +0000

Wow — that’s quite a piece you link to, Bob! Thanks for sharing it. ]]>

By: Bob

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:24:52 +0000

I’m not sure Manjoo’s argument is even correct. He certainly seems to get the history wrong:

http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324

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By: Adrian

Tue, 24 May 2011 05:08:51 +0000

1. _It is a trivial task to turn double-spaced text into single-spaced text. (“Find and Replace”)

2. _It is a difficult or impossible task to turn single-spaced text into double-spaced text.

3. _Double-spaced text is easier to read for at least some if not most people.

Given those three hard facts (Challenge them. _I dare you.), the logical way to go would be to compose and store text as double-spaced and to convert it to single-spaced only for those who want it and only on-the-fly. _That is, a version without.the information stripped away should always be available.

By the way, can someone recommend (or program!) a FireFox extension that presents text with double-spacing intact?

How about web publishing? _Can anyone point to a web publishing platform that can be made to present double-spaced text properly to all users?

PS — For this comment I use the “double-spaced” to refer to spaces between sentences, though we double-spacers need to work to reclaim it from what should be called “double-returning”…or “double-carriage-returning”…or “double-line-feeding” etc.

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By: Matt

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:24:44 +0000

Tomatoes are vegetables. The Supreme Court said so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden

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