Re: Formatting text and using the convention of putting 2 spaces after a period

On 2018-08-06 14:47, John Little wrote:
> So, for text to be rendered properly in a variable width font one
> space is best, but with a monospace font, aka a typewriter font,
> such as vim uses, some of us cling to two spaces.

I still use two spaces in my source material particularly because I
can `:set cpo+=J` and Vim will be smart enough to navigate by
sentence even if I have intermediate punctuation that might otherwise
be considered terminal. E.g.

I saw Dr. Smith yesterday. She lives on Oak St. with her husband.

Using ")" and "(" will navigate by true sentences and the "is"/"as"
text-objects refer appropriately to the sentence, not getting tripped
up by the "Dr." and "St." With `cpo-=J`, navigating with ")" and "("
will land on [S]mith and [S]he, and "dis" will only delete a portion
of my sentence.

That said, I usually write in some form of markup (usually HTML but
sometimes Markdown or occasionally LaTeX) and then render them to
HTML or PDF output with whatever the renderer deems an appropriate
amount of inter-sentence spacing---an amount I don't really care
about as long as it looks reasonable. :-)

-tim




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