I've always been an avid two-spacer. My English teacher taught me that in high school and I never questioned it. Just assumed to keep using two-spaces. I've never been called out in it in my writing, whether that be online, in work, or in university. I can understand why some people prefer one space. Doesn't seem like a big deal to me though, I think it should just be a matter of preference. On a completely unrelated note, a video with basically the hubski logo was at the end of the article:
I've always used two spaces since I was taught to type in third grade, but a couple of months ago, I installed Lyx, intending to start to use LaTeX. Part of the settings are that it prevents two spaces at the end of a sentence, and will literally say "two spaces disallowed" or something like that because I guess it handles spacing automatically. I pretty quickly dropped my two-space habit, and now I'm happy that I did because it gains me a teensy bit of time. Marginal gains, but still, a gain's a gain. Now, hitting the space bar twice feels unnatural and redundant.
Similar story to yours. The article seems to have a sort of humorous tone to it, but it was interesting to read it presented as a natural law, like this is information critical to the foundations of human communication.
Haha, ya. The Manual of Typography, with all-due-respect, isn't exactly revealing a critical flaw to how we self-organize and share information. I'm using two-spaces now. Can you still understand me? Are you perturbed by the extra space so much that I become incomprehensible?
FYI, the two spaces become one space in your comment due to HTML's "feature" of automatic concatenation of spaces in p tags. If you check the source of this page, you'll see that the spaces are actually there, and it's not Hubski's fault (as I had first assumed when I realized that spaces were concatenated on this site).
would preserve the space. <pre> </pre>
Oh that's interesting. I've never even noticed that. To be honest, I just don't care about the two-space or one-space thing. I'm cool with either.
Ya I suppose. It's kind of funny to read/hear people get so passionate for something so trivial.
Ha, that's exactly what I thought and I just assumed that's what it was until I read the title of the video.