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Originally Posted by Bonanza
I was taught two spaces at the end of a sentence when I took a journalism course. I will not change. With only one space, regardless if it is proportional or monospace, it looks like a run-on sentence. When a sentence ends in a l or exclamation point and the next sentence begins with an I, you still don't know what the hell you're reading. Here's an example: -- That's all! I love it. -- Two spaces would definitely make it easier to read.
Now to the nitty-gritty . . .
You never realized it, but TOTV automatically changed your two spaces to one. Regardless of what you do, when you submit anything on TOTV, the site automatically uses one space only at the end of each sentence It really doesn't matter; TOTV has taken poetic license and have changed the two spaces to one!
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And what's more interesting is when I got the TOTV email alert that someone had posted further on this topic (you), the email (that always lists what the poster said) left the two spaces in between your sentences, except for your example sentences where you intentionally only left one space.
SO... who is in charge? How come the TOTV emails do it correctly but the postings do not? Are they using some third party for putting up the postings, who changes it to one space? Or is the third party sending the emails who leave it at two spaces?
I'm all for two spaces. And PARAGRAPHS, please, in very long posts. Breaking it up makes it so much easier to read.