What happened to my double-spacing?

[BillyCosmos!]

As is correct in typed English, I always put two spaces after the end of a sentence. As I did just now.
When I hit post, I suspect that required second space will be removed. Why?
Is the intent to make things harder to read?
To accommodate the lazy and incompetent?

I don't like it.
If you are going to alter what I post, I would appreciate it if you would not do so to make it look like I don't know how to type.

And no, changing the font is not a solution. The solution is to stop incorrecting text.

[Ben Lubar]

Welcome to HTML. Glad you could finally make it to the internet.

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by BillyCosmos!:

What happened to my double-spacing?

You're posting on a forum that doesn't use a monospaced font. Thus double spacing isn't required. Also, you might want to refer to an up-to-date style guide, as the majority now state that double-spacing after a period is incorrect.

[Yujah]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

You're posting on a forum that doesn't use a monospaced font.

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I.e., there is a solution...

[Malfunctioning Robot]

If the OP was "actually" worried about correct English there wouldnt have been a line break after nearly every sentence, or the grammatical hate crime of this sentence

The solution is to stop incorrecting text.

That literally made me cringe.

[Yujah]

Nah; that was just creative use of language.

These forums would sort of improve if not most any reply was someone trying to find fault rather than assist with something or other. Admittedly that includes OP itself, so, sure and all, but still.

[Malfunctioning Robot]

Originally posted by Yujah:

Nah; that was just creative use of language.

These forums would sort of improve if not most any reply was someone trying to find fault rather than assist with something or other. Admittedly that includes OP itself, so, sure and all, but still.

No. It's not "creative" to use the incorrect word for the action being "taken". Neither is using bad typing habits in a post proclaiming your dedication to proper typing habits.

[Satoru]

Note that most modern forums and systems remove whitespaces spaces after a period.

Some forums indicates 2 whitespaces as a carriage return, but this is really more a hold over from the older days of the internet and most modern forum software doesn't do this. Also readability isn't impacted anymore by having 2 whitespaces after a period. This really isn't needed anymore.

It is sort of dumb to say removing excess whitespace is 'lazy' since the code to remove such a thing is literally the opposite of 'lazy'

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Originally posted by BillyCosmos!:

As is correct in typed English, I always put two spaces after the end of a sentence.

Welcome to the 21st century.

[Knee]

There  are  some  special characters  you  can  use  to  get   extra  spaces, usually in unicode, but     apparently   ASCII  characters, as I'm demonstrating    now    seem to work

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by BillyCosmos!:

As is correct in typed English, I always put two spaces after the end of a sentence. As I did just now.
When I hit post, I suspect that required second space will be removed. Why?
Is the intent to make things harder to read?
To accommodate the lazy and incompetent?

I don't like it.
If you are going to alter what I post, I would appreciate it if you would not do so to make it look like I don't know how to type.

And no, changing the font is not a solution. The solution is to stop incorrecting text.

If any of this is considered "proper English", the language has gone to hell. In regards to the double-spaces after a sentence, there is nothing "proper" about it. It was a habit that was born out of the type-writer age to make new sentences more visible on a page of mono-spaced font letters. English was a language that evolved long before the dawn of type-writers. To paraphrase Hector Barbosa, it's more of a guideline than an actual rule.

It's akin to what I'm doing here and double-spacing my paragraphs. It makes them much easier to read in the format that is presented here within the forums. Without it, the text looks like one wall of text.

[PocketYoda]

In my 50 years i've never seen double spacing text ever and i was born in Britain..

[DarkCrystalMethod]

I suspect this was from the old typewriter days and perhaps from pure console text-based computer terminals. There's no reason to continue the two space 'tradition'. You can certainly type it but on steam its not going to render as you wanted it to.
I even tried writing   twice since this is html anyway, but it prints it raw anyway and shows up as that ugly code in the shown message.

[Ben Lubar]

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

I suspect this was from the old typewriter days and perhaps from pure console text-based computer terminals. There's no reason to continue the two space 'tradition'. You can certainly type it but on steam its not going to render as you wanted it to.
I even tried writing   twice since this is html anyway, but it prints it raw anyway and shows up as that ugly code in the shown message.

If you're on Windows or you have a compose key there are ways to insert that particular Unicode character directly without using HTML entities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space#Keyboard_entry_methods

[Yujah]

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

I suspect (...)

Wikipedia states...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing

[Ben Lubar]

Originally posted by Yujah:

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

I suspect (...)

Wikipedia states...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing

The desired or correct sentence spacing is often debated, but most sources now state that an additional space is not necessary or desirable.[9] From around 1950, single sentence spacing became standard in books, magazines, and newspapers,[10] and the majority of style guides that use a Latin-derived alphabet as a language base now prescribe or recommend the use of a single space after the concluding punctuation of a sentence.[11]

So anyone who tells you to use two spaces is giving you information that's been wrong for nearly 75 years.