Re: French spacing vs single space after punctuation.

[Helen OBoyle <hoboyle -at- gmail -dot- com>]

http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/2014/07/30/google-docs-tip-one-spacebar-or-two/

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Shawn <shawn -at- cohodata -dot- com> wrote:

> Hello Helen,
>
> >A simple command will fix this in most text editors.
>
> Not easy in Google Documents.
>
> >Just do it for them and stop whingeing, and get back to worrying about
> conveying information.
>
> I think you missed the levity of my post. My post wasn't meant to be taken
> seriously.
>
> >People who started typing decades ago are going to have this ingrained,
>
> I think you also missed my point about the authors being so young as to
> never encountered typewriters. The puzzle is where did they pick up this
> archaic habit?
>
> >There are worse things than people following outdated conventions. Like
> people who can't be bothered to follow any conventions at all.
>
> 100% agree.
>
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> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Helen OBoyle <hoboyle -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> Some of our brains have been taught that this is the proper way to do it.
>> A simple command will fix this in most text editors. Just do it for them
>> and stop whingeing, and get back to worrying about conveying information.
>>
>> People who started typing decades ago are going to have this ingrained,
>> and even when they choose to do differently, and focus consciously on doing
>> so, it still won't turn out that way a lot of the time. When I moved to a
>> country with UK-English as opposed to US-English spelling conventions, I
>> had to learn and use them. I do, but it's NOT foolproof because a lot of
>> the translation between concept and paper happens in my fingers rather than
>> through conscious thought. Often editors have to turn z's into s's or add
>> u's to my o's, despite many similar words in the same document being
>> correct (because I was conscious of spelling when I wrote them). If you
>> wish to care about double spaces between sentences, make that your problem
>> instead of the engineers'. Be glad that your engineers apparently give you
>> legible enough documents that you have time to go picky on double spaces.
>>
>> There are worse things than people following outdated conventions. Like
>> people who can't be bothered to follow any conventions at all.
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
>>
>>> Double spacing after sentences, colons and semicolons is actually called
>>> "English spacing."
>>>
>>> "French spacing" refers to a system in which single spaces are placed
>>> both before and after certain punctuation marks.
>>>
>>> Gene Kim-Eng
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/25/2015 4:18 PM, Shawn wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> French spacing (or double spacing) is one of my few pet peeves.
>>>>
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