I do like this to a certain extent. Note there are two spaces after my period, however. This is the old norm from the days of pre-computing typing. Today, apparently, the rule is just one. Technically I’m committing a grammar error in my writing now. One space still looks funny, and that’s why I don’t adhere to it. That may change one day. Not today.
http://lifehacker.com/5930680/i-wont-hire-people-who-use-poor-grammar-heres-why
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Ugh two spaces. The graphic designer/typesetter in me wants to strangle you, but the horrible grammar non-writer person in me wants to hug you.
Also, I looked back at the cover letter for my current job and man, I don’t think there was one well formed sentence in it. But that’s why we hire editors!
]]>Honestly that describes the personal battle in my head ever since discovering my training on number of spaces to follow a period was obsolesced. I try and do it like this, but I don’t like it.
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]]>Modern fonts are supposed to be designed with the space after the period built in. The typewriter wasn’t capable of it, but computers are smart about it. But hey when I get copy to flow into a magazine, I just do a find and replace to change two spaces into one and double dashes into em dashes. So it’s actually not a huge deal!
]]>Good to know. I generally compose without regard to the fonts, as I never know how its ultimately going to look on someone else’s monitor. Even if I specify font types, their browsers may be setup to override that.
]]>Plain html actually disregards double/multiple spaces! So on most websites it won’t even matter. But G+ forces them to be visible by changing them to code =)
]]>I should talk to you graphic designer/typsetters more often… I had noticed that on the HTML side…thoug didn’t quite -realize- connect-the-dots that was why it was doing that.
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