It's been quiet here, but only here. In the Express I have reviews of Barbara Probst's "Exposures" at G Fine Art and Alberto Gaitán's Remembrancer at Curator's Office. Click here for a Guardian piece about Jonah Goldberg, Richard McBeef, Va Tech ribbons, and Cho Seung-Hui. Then, on Thursday, pick up a Washington City Paper for a feature on artDC, the art fair that hits the District . . . on Thursday. I'm running out to see two shows just this second, so I have no time to gab, but let's catch up later, okay?
UPDATE: You know what? At some point in the past several years, I dropped the two spaces after a period. Am I making things up, or wasn't that the rule?
Posted by Kriston at April 24, 2007 2:59 PMI still do two spaces after a period. I'm old school like that.
Posted by: Becks at April 24, 2007 10:25 PM2 spaces after a period is ONLY for typewriters. Computers use fonts that have more accurate kerning and you are actually typesetting, not typing. But the only people who seem to know this are people who have had some sort of typography training...and there are actually government drones who follow graphic designers around asking them to reinsert 2 spaces.
Posted by: at April 24, 2007 10:41 PMI've spent more time than I care to ponder removing extraneous spaces after periods from Wikipedia articles.
It's a pathological tick I generally indulge when I'm already busy populating articles I'm reading with proper em- and en-dashes or simply correcting egregious grammar.
Posted by: Dan at April 25, 2007 3:31 AMApril is correct. A terrific guide for more useful tips is, "A Mac is not a Typewriter". http://www.amazon.com/Mac-Not-Typewriter-Second/dp/0201782634/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-6326209-5378522?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177498308&sr=8-1
Posted by: richard at April 25, 2007 6:54 AMEh, I like the old ways. I was taught to type on a computer, but my teacher still insisted on two spaces. It's the way God intended, consarnit.
But in nearly all situations HTML rendering engines collapse whitespace into a single space, so when it comes to writing on the web it really doesn't matter how many spaces you use. Readers would have to go to View | Page Source to see.
Posted by: tom at April 25, 2007 10:55 AMReaders would have to go to View | Page Source to see.
HTML–enabled pedantry. Excellent.
I'm just stunned, even a little concerned, that I dropped that rule without a conscious effort.
Posted by: Kriston at April 25, 2007 11:34 AMMy wife, a grammar stickler from a family of editors, browbeat(ed?) me into dropping that second space. I was skeptical at first, but now my thumbs are fractionally less tired!
Posted by: mrh at April 25, 2007 5:38 PMI'm going to start putting two non-breaking spaces after each period just to thwart HTML. Typing eight extra characters is totally worth it.
Posted by: Becks at April 25, 2007 8:45 PM