victor809
Monday, April 27, 2020 5:24:18 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/tech/microsoft-word-two-spaces-trnd/index.html 

You can pry my second space out of my cold, dead keyboard.

Sunoverbeach
Monday, April 27, 2020 5:56:08 PM
Mrs.Hamlin, my 8th grade English teacher, would not approve of this.
fiddler898
Monday, April 27, 2020 6:16:35 PM
Agreed. I’ve been doing 2 spaces for 50+ years. I don’t see that changing.
Palama
Monday, April 27, 2020 6:58:02 PM

Agreed. I’ve been doing 2 spaces for 50+ years. I don’t see that changing.

fiddler898 wrote:

+1

Gene363
Monday, April 27, 2020 9:11:42 PM

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/tech/microsoft-word-two-spaces-trnd/index.html

You can pry my second space out of my cold, dead keyboard.

victor809 wrote:

Don't you dare agree with me!

FWIW, it's been a configurable setting for a long time.

cacman
Monday, April 27, 2020 10:08:40 PM
MAC all the way! Been buying their stock since 2001.

And for what it is worth. The double-space between sentences is not typographically correct. From he bygone days of using a typewriter when everything was monospaced. Even using posting a double-space to the board will result in a single-space.

DrMaddVibe
Monday, April 27, 2020 10:12:13 PM
MACS
Monday, April 27, 2020 11:08:39 PM
I do believe we're all in agreement on this...
Gene363
Tuesday, April 28, 2020 1:11:07 PM

Blame global warming, using two spaces loads up servers with unnecessary data, running all those extra hard drives burns a lot of power. It would also help if you would use smaller fonts to save server space.

victor809
Tuesday, April 28, 2020 1:40:22 PM

Blame global warming, using two spaces loads up servers with unnecessary data, running all those extra hard drives burns a lot of power. It would also help if you would use smaller fonts to save server space.

Gene363 wrote:

Most embarrassing moment of my adult life...

I was finishing a document set for validation... probably 8 or so years ago. These documents were hundreds of pages each... I would write up 1000s of pages of specifications and test scripts.

Anyway. I had to take a trip and I was trying to get all my files together. I had to make sure I'd saved everything to my laptop before I headed out.

For the briefest moment, I clearly remember having the thought that "goddammit, my laptop is going to be so heavy with all these documents in it".

Of course, the thought passed quickly without me saying anything that stupid. But it's amusing how sometimes concepts get stuck in our brains.

Gene363
Tuesday, April 28, 2020 4:17:23 PM

Most embarrassing moment of my adult life...

I was finishing a document set for validation... probably 8 or so years ago. These documents were hundreds of pages each... I would write up 1000s of pages of specifications and test scripts.

Anyway. I had to take a trip and I was trying to get all my files together. I had to make sure I'd saved everything to my laptop before I headed out.

For the briefest moment, I clearly remember having the thought that "goddammit, my laptop is going to be so heavy with all these documents in it".

Of course, the thought passed quickly without me saying anything that stupid. But it's amusing how sometimes concepts get stuck in our brains.

victor809 wrote:

It might have started by an IT guy, I'm just saying.

There were some Dilbert cartoons on this subject:

https://dilbert.com/strip/1996-08-20 

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