top | item 30560272 (no title) 2 points| sahil50 | 4 years ago discuss order hn newest QuarterRoy|4 years ago Anyone who was college educated in the 80s and 90s does this because that’s how we were taught to type and all of our papers had to be double-spaced. david927|4 years ago And I do that too. It was common in the days of typewriters and lingered for some people.A friend at my first workplace after college told me I was "doing it wrong" by using only one space -- and I can't go back now. I am not Satoshi. wrycoder|4 years ago Two spaces after the period looks better to my eye. One space looks cramped.Plus, it's easier to find the end of a sentence visually.If you go back to older typeset documents - Ben Franklin's, say - you'll usually see more space at the end of sentences.(I've studied typography and I've hand-set type. I think it's a design choice.) 1970-01-01|4 years ago I'm going to flag this. You can read Elon tweets and disprove this theory in seconds.
QuarterRoy|4 years ago Anyone who was college educated in the 80s and 90s does this because that’s how we were taught to type and all of our papers had to be double-spaced.
david927|4 years ago And I do that too. It was common in the days of typewriters and lingered for some people.A friend at my first workplace after college told me I was "doing it wrong" by using only one space -- and I can't go back now. I am not Satoshi. wrycoder|4 years ago Two spaces after the period looks better to my eye. One space looks cramped.Plus, it's easier to find the end of a sentence visually.If you go back to older typeset documents - Ben Franklin's, say - you'll usually see more space at the end of sentences.(I've studied typography and I've hand-set type. I think it's a design choice.)
wrycoder|4 years ago Two spaces after the period looks better to my eye. One space looks cramped.Plus, it's easier to find the end of a sentence visually.If you go back to older typeset documents - Ben Franklin's, say - you'll usually see more space at the end of sentences.(I've studied typography and I've hand-set type. I think it's a design choice.)
1970-01-01|4 years ago I'm going to flag this. You can read Elon tweets and disprove this theory in seconds.
QuarterRoy|4 years ago
david927|4 years ago
A friend at my first workplace after college told me I was "doing it wrong" by using only one space -- and I can't go back now. I am not Satoshi.
wrycoder|4 years ago
Plus, it's easier to find the end of a sentence visually.
If you go back to older typeset documents - Ben Franklin's, say - you'll usually see more space at the end of sentences.
(I've studied typography and I've hand-set type. I think it's a design choice.)
1970-01-01|4 years ago