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I normally double-space between sentences, even on the DBB where the double space will be rendered by web browsers as only a single one. I was reading some style guides:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chic ... orTwo.html
http://www.personalityresearch.org/writing/apa.html
http://www.mla.org/publications/style/s ... style_faq3
... and apparently somewhere along the line the preferred way became to single space. What think you, DBB?

i never understood why html doesn't render doublespaces, you need to do that weird %d&sdn whatever thing, which is too much work and you eventually stop bothering

Single spaces only here. Double spaces don't add any extra meaning and don't really help understanding that much...

I prefer double-spaces, for readability.

I prefer for reading articles, but for BB stuff, single works fine for me.

heh, i just realised i said i prefer doublespaces (and yes, it's for readability) yet i also don't like to use capitol letters.

I... only... use... single... spaces.
Well,heyit'sbetterthanthis,right?

roid wrote:i never understood why html doesn't render doublespaces, you need to do that weird %d&sdn whatever thing, which is too much work and you eventually stop bothering

thats not html's job, its CSS's.

what? i've always, always doublespaced, even here, as reflex (whether it works or not)

double

For some reason, the "official" MLA format (whoever invented that thing should be shot repeatedly ) seems to require single spaces. I was always taught to double-space when growing up, and I still do it out of habit, even on BBs.

Sergeant Thorne wrote:I prefer double-spaces, for readability.

x2

I always use double-spaces.

Don't care, can read and write both..

HTML supposedly ignores white space. The first space is recognised to separate rendered text elements, but all subsequent spaces are ignored. I sat "supposedly" because IE is the most shocking example out there of white space most definitely *NOT* being correctly ignored.

*sigh*

I for some reason like to double-space, even after I'm told not to. It's ust what I do unconsciously.

But single-space looks good for official stuff. Double-space looks good for just about everything else.

It depends on what I'm writing. If it's an E-mail, IM, stuff like that, I use double spaces. If it's an advertisement or tagline, I use single spaces. Not because it uses up less characters, but because it's a little easier to skim through quickly and keep flow. At least that's what I've always found.

It depends on the situation. A single space works good if the two separated sentences/paragraphs are inclusive to the same idea, and a double space for separate ideas.

I don't know if it changes anything though. Since all forms of proper writing on internet bulliten boards are at a third grade level, if it even exists at all, sentence structure doesn't matter.

Can you even indent anymore?

Obviously not.

Various people have suggested I double space things like that, but I usually wound up ignoring them all. There are better and more professional ways to achieve the same effect, anyway (usually renderer specific. In HTML, it's CSS - double spacing doesn't even really work anyway; I'm sure word processing tools such as MS Word/OpenOffice/LaTeX have their own facilities also).

I never double space. We don't do that in handwriting either, do we?

Single space, anything else is a waste of electrons

Tricord wrote:I never double space. We don't do that in handwriting either, do we?

I do. It's not a "double space" but I put significantly more space between sentences than between words.

double space is the standard after a period

I gathered that learned English required two spaces. Business letters and formal invites, etc. I don't online, 'cause half of the web doesn't recognize them anyway. Any printed materials, however, I still do.

Well, now how's this then .I just found myself washed up on a tropical island (if anyone on here lives in Jamaica - yo .) and I've found a large number of people who punctuate with a space, then a period .As I've done throughout this message .Is this standard anywhere ?cuz it's hard to do, having learned it the other way.

Technically, you are supposed to double space between sentences. Online though I get lazy and single space it. :\

[fs]duhq wrote:As I've done throughout this message .Is this standard anywhere ?

In literate countries, as far as I know, no.