Some people resist change only because it's change. For those of you that grew up and took a typing class with "real" typewriters, you can always remember (with fond memories) the days when fixed-width font was your only option and you always put 2 spaces after your periods.
Today, however, most fonts are variable-width, and only require 1 space after a period, semi-colon, or colon.
Who says: Bill Hill, former Director of Typography at Microsoft and founder of ClearType.
Check out his impressive bio at microsoft.com...billhill.
Also @ microsoft.com, a video in which Bill Hill tells us how it is... (only bother with the first 30 seconds or so)
Friday, May 9, 2008
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How can I take advice on English from a Scotsman? Space, space. Two spaces looks better and gives the perfect subconscious pause between sentences. Besides, when I use my two spaces, this comment window is just going to reformat it to one, anyway, and then I'll have to come back, edit, and add 4 spaces in between.
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