![]() I thought this was neat.In case you learned the language, you may be interested in these finicky details, as they often go unnoticed by the untrained or inattentive eye.Ĭonsider we're talking about fine-grained detail about a language, which may escape a less experienced person's grasp (like the connotation of finicky does to me, as a non-native speaker). Of course you can change it to look for two spaces after any punctuation mark and replace with one space, etc. It also looks for question marks with one space and changes it to two spaces. with two spaces and changes to one space. I have it looking for single spaces after a period and replacing with two spaces. ![]() I just played around and recorded this macro. I would not, personally, use a non-breaking space in HTML to force this you’re breaking the text flow and can damage layout, but again, it’s IMHO.Īs to ragged-right, this is generally accepted to be easier to read than fully justified, precisely because of the standard inter-word spacing. However, I’m talking about layout for print on-screen, I suspect that an extra space is likely to help, as a screen is too low-res. Most you won’t be aware of, but they have an effect.Ī lot of the skills of the old hot-metal typographers and layout artists, which were largely transferred to the phototypesetters, did not make it to the DTP packages. There may not be that many well-designed fonts, either!Ī well-designed page will include many subtle features to include legibility, including additional spacing after punctuation, hanging punctuation on fully set text, ligatures, kerning, character spacing, etc. The problem is that few layout packages (and Word is not a layout package) actually follow very good typographical rules, and may override or ignore font metrics. You should not need an extra space for proportional fonts as a well-designed font will include extra spacing after punctuation in the font metrics. I think that too much spacing breaks the rhythm of reading. I will reserve the right to disagree about comprehension, but it’s only a minor disagreement. Do what works best for you, and the people you work with. Well, I certainly ain’t going to start a holy war. If you need an extra-wide space, Word allows you to use em spaces as a special character. Note that it’s irrelevant on Web pages HTML (and XML) processors treat any amount of space characters (in normal text) as a single white space, as it should be… I think some legal styles insist on this. Sticks out like a sore thumb when I read a document like this □Īnd, as noted, it’s much easier to search-and-replace two spaces back down to one than to carry out the reverse.īut you may not have a choice if working to an established style that requires two spaces. In fact, adding two spaces damages the layout slightly by throwing off the carefully balanced spacing controlled by the application and font metrics. Most “classically trained” typists still use two spaces by reflex and will edit to this standard. Using two spaces after punctuation is, strictly speaking, incorrect in set text and harks back to good typing practice before the days of proportional, WYSIWYG fonts. This normally looks better and is easier to automate a search-and-replace for consistency. ![]() I suggest you try to standardise on the alternative “punctuation-single space” if possible. ![]()
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