I was just wondering why I can't double space after ending a sentance on here. <See what I mean. I tried to double space between all three of these sentances but it took one of my spaces away from me.
Have you ever heard of negative space. Lumberjocks exists in a zone of negative space determined by the square root of -1, an imaginary number. This is simply to say that only spaces exist and all the words and punctuation you see are merely part of your imagination dictated by the matrix
My guess is that it has to do with the idea that the computer works in recognizing only characters and a space so that all spaces get converted into a single space…But sometimes I can put lots of spaces say between one picture and another.
Actually its because it eventually gets converted to html. You can fool the system by entering space-dot-space. That's about the best I can offer for a workaround. Actually you might be able to insert a non-breaking space like this . Hope this helps.
EDIT: Well, looks like that don't work either.
EDIT: Well, it works now! what you can't see are the successive nonbreaking spaces I entered… "& n b s p ;"
Yes sir Mr. Rance sir. Anything you says boss,haha. Yea, I didn't understand a word of what ya'll were saying,haha. Thanks for your time and effort though.
Yeah, modern typesetting systems consider what used to be double spaces to be a part of the period character in the font itself, and so multiple spaces are condensed to a single space. In fact you'll find long screeds from the earliest instances of the computer as a typesetting tool up into modern days about why you shouldn't double space after a period any more.
If you really want that extra space, you can type in " ". This puts in a "non-breaking space" character in: You can use this to put in a big break (that also won't wrap, so "a big break" there will always show up on one line).
Oh, rance: You don't have to put the spaces in to write , you can do it by writing & for the ampersand, so will render as (and, no, you don't want to know what that looks like in the text edit box…).
You know….I was up most of the night worrying about that very same thing ….... Then I started thinking about "Donna" my First Girl Friend and the nights we use to spend down in her Rec Room listening to Johnny Mathis (I Think) SUDDENLY…. I forgot all about …what is it you guys are talkin' about …LOL ;-}
Hey ZEKE!! What happened to your "Song Of The Day" I enjoyed that!!!
WOW Dan, What language are you speaking,haha. Some of you "computer" guys amaze me. Rick, I'm getting back on track. I'll be posting an honest tune here shortly.
These problems are generally referred to as a P.I.C.N.I.C. IT admins wink at each other, because the acronym means " Problem In Chair, Not In Computer!! Just Kidding, Zeke!!!
Actually people think that a double space after a sentence is correct typing but it actually isn't. One space is the right way. It has something to do with mechanical typewriters of old but I forget why.
Craftsman is absolutely correct. Look it up in the Chicago style manual. Double spaces were used with old typewriters. If you still use it, you're showing your age.
Yeah, definitely had to do with the monospace font faces. Since the period took up the same width, double spacing became common practice to make sentence barriers easier to see at a glance. Nowadays, with variable font widths, the period takes up very little space on the line and doesn't need to be followed by dual spaces; one suffices.
Dan PICNIC is an old term.. more common nowadays are "Layer 8 issues" (following the ISO model) or "ID-10T errors". Spell that out loud and people don't pick up on it ("eye-dee-ten-tee") but write down the letters and you have a 1337 (leet [stupid hacker ebonics]) version of idiot.
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