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[impersona]

I am really, seriously horrified and overwhelmed right now.   I had absolutely no idea that now it is standard and proper to only use one space after sentence periods now, instead of double-spacing.  I have no idea how that knowledge completely missed me over the past twenty-some years, especially since I take so much pride in writing on the Interwebs.  

I'm sorry that you've all had to look at my horrible, hideous spacing habits up until now.  Single-spacing still looks really weird and wrong to me and it will take me a while to break from my ways.

And just to clarify, yes, I'm completely serious about how shocked I am.  I heard about the modern spacing conventions while at a meeting at work and went BUH and everyone was like "well, duh?".  Everybody being at least 10 years older than me too, and surprised that a youngin' like me wasn't taught about single-spacing at school.

Stupid single spacing.  I get it, it's just that the conventions of spacing absolutely never, ever crossed my mind before.  Double-space after periods.  The end.

MY WORLD IS UNDONE 

Comments

[thez]

Which is hilarious because this entire comment you just posted appears as single-spaced anyway because of the aforementioned journal defaults. :D

[ru]

Good grief, SNAP. The fact that I didn't notice that before now kinda renders some of my argument moot, too. XD;;;

[caltastic]

It's actually not just a journal thing, it's HTML as a whole. The conventions of the language will (and have always) compressed multiple spaces into a single space, because programming languages are wonky that way.

With that being said, I have and will always use two spaces at the end of a sentence, and anyone who tells me not to can go stick that extra space right up their ass. XD

[thez]

I was actually kind of curious about that! In Sage's style it all comes out single-spaced, but in my journal style I could swear her post appears double-spaced.

I R LEARNING

[caltastic]

It is possible that your style grabs double spaces specifically and then replaces them with the HTML entity instead, which would preserve them. It's pretty hit-or-miss with editors. XD

[thez]

THANK YOU I was hoping you'd explain it, because my working theory was "magic".