Too space, or not two space

Jesse Meek jesse.meek at canonical.com
Wed Nov 19 00:15:42 UTC 2014


I take that as +1 from Dave.

On 19/11/14 13:13, David Cheney wrote:
> To quote Butterick's
> http://practicaltypography.com/one-space-between-sentences.html
>
> "> I think two spaces look bet­ter so that’s what I’m go­ing to use.
>
> I’m telling you the rule. If you want to put per­sonal taste ahead of
> the rule, I can’t stop you. But per­sonal taste doesn’t make the rule
> evap­o­rate. It’s like say­ing “I don’t like how sub­junc­tive-mood
> verbs sound, so I’m never go­ing to use them.”
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Jesse Meek <jesse.meek at canonical.com> wrote:
>> I'm coming across double spaces after a full stop in comments. Some consider
>> this an error, others an intentional style that makes the comment cleaner to
>> read.
>>
>> Yes, it's a minor point but in the name of consistency and avoiding future
>> review ping pong on the issue, I'm calling for a vote:
>>
>> Should we have a single space after full stops in comments?
>> http://xkcd.com/1285/
>>
>> Please reply +1 for yes to one space, -1 for no to one space. I'll tally up
>> votes on Friday and update our style guide accordingly.
>>
>> My vote: +1
>>
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