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on Friday May 11 2018, @12:26PM
from the BBC-thinks-it's-a-paragraph-break-after-a-period dept.
from the BBC-thinks-it's-a-paragraph-break-after-a-period dept.
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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.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday May 11 2018, @04:37PM
I'll take a guess that the two space convention predates using computers for text. The convention originates in an ancient dark time of pain and anguish when people used typewriters.
Ancient typewriters were monospace. I'll suppose the two space convention is a result.
I'm not against single space (really), but there is no way I'm going to un-learn two-space. For monospace, I still prefer the two-space convention.
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