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	iontruo2	2007-12-20 , 13:39
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles

Two spaces trips me up and irritates me to no end. I believe it has more to do with what you were raised on and what you're used to than to some sort of "readibility" standard. Truthfully, though, two spaces is pointless with proportional width fonts as the way the font is rendered accounts for the extra space after a period anyway.

Hopefully the dinosaurs who keep trying to train people in this deprecated method die off soon. :P

Funny, what seems to irritate people. Anyone who ever learned typing and writing rules has the system of two spaces thoroughly ingrained as a core rule. Pretty tough one to shed after so many years. Odd, if the font issue has actually changed the original rule, then one must really wonder these days why they are still investing soooo much effort in a relic like the QWERTY method for input. A keyboard format that was specifically designed to impede performance (speed) back in the days of mechanical typewriters.

So new rules abound and old systems sadly persist because of inertia and irritation was the theme of these days. Gosh we are cranky lot, considering the tools we now 'enjoy'.

Last edited by iontruo2; 2007-12-20 at 13:41.

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