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In what may be one of the most controversial studies of the year, researchers at Skidmore College—clearly triggered by a change in the American Psychological Association (APA) style book—sought to quantify the benefits of two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence. After conducting an eye-tracking experiment with 60 Skidmore students, Rebecca L. Johnson, Becky Bui, and Lindsay L. Schmitt found that two spaces at the end of a period slightly improved the processing of text during reading. The research was trumpeted by some press outlets as a vindication of two-spacers' superiority.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday May 11 2018, @02:52PM (3 children)
Let me ask the TeX experts. What do you do if you want your document to contain a symmetrical double quote? Like the ASCII double quote. TeX seems to convert them to an asymmetrical one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @03:49PM
Search around for TeX "straight quotes" or "dumb quotes". I got a few results, but there doesn't seem to be a "canonical" way, everyone seems to have their own, and it's always clumsy to use and/or has some caveats. The best I've seen seems to be the macro "\textquotedbl", but the required includes mess with some other stuff.
(Score: 2) by melikamp on Friday May 11 2018, @06:46PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @08:52PM
That is the preferred way to get asymmetrical, "smart" quotes, literally the opposite of what GP asked for :)