Comment on Why does markdown treat linefeeds as spaces?

slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Supposed to”? That originated back before desktop publishing existed, when typed communication (as in typewriters) were only monospace, and adding 2 spaces between sentences made text easier to read.

  In modern times (as in the past 30 years or so, i think), while adding 2 spaces between sentences might remain as a preference or in a style guide, you haven’t been “supposed to” do it.

  Maybe now that markdown is so commonplace, it’ll make a return?

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• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That comes from typewriters, before kerning was a thing. Each key press moved the paper an equal distance, so every single character was evenly spaced. Even narrow characters like i or l had the same amount of space on each side of them. Monospaced font is easier to read when sentences end with a double space. But with modern kerned fonts, the double space is pointless.

  Phones sub in a period for simplicity, so you don’t need to reach for the period key. It doesn’t actually include the double space at all; it removes the first space and replaces it with a period. If you’re “supposed” to double space after each sentence, why does your phone remove that first space?

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  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ending a sentence with two spaces differentiates the end of the sentence, full stop. Kerned, monospace, serif, sans, heavy weight, light weight, double spaced lines, single spaced lines, whatever. Two spaces at the end of the sentence helps make the end of a sentence clearer in every case.

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• kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They also delete the second space lol

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ike.

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• XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If that was the reason smartphones place periods, they’d leave double spaces and throw a period before them. They don’t, they replace a space with the period. It’s just a shortcut with a large target button.

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• undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you type a double space on iOS it’ll insert just one space then a period. So becomes ..

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• 9limmer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s an entirely different issue. I think what you’re talking about is just a shortcut for typing quickly. Even then a double space is replaced with a period and single space.

  I’m talking about two paragraphs with two linefeeds will be displayed as a single paragraph unless there are two spaces before the linefeeds.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Two linefeeds will be two paragraphs.

    Like that.

    Two spaces are needed before a linefeed to make the one paragraph.
    Like this.

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    • 9limmer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, had a brain fart. I mean your second case. This seems trivial when typing a few comments as you’ve done but it’s incredible tedious when copying and pasting long lists and articles.

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