"It's easy to fix my holdover habit from a bygone era that makes the basic process of collaboration harder" is ultimately a judgment about whose time is valuable and whose wants are elevated over whose needs
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It is even easier for people to keep the standard that has been around for decades.
jul 7, 2025, 1:32 am โข 0 0 โข view
At my advanced age, the amount of cognitive effort to change my lifetime two-spaced habit might kill me.
jul 7, 2025, 1:36 am โข 1 0 โข view
it's best to keep this one a light and easy series of jokes about punctuation and not get into what's "easy" in a workflow because ultimately we're going to go to a pretty dark place about the gender and age breakdown of, say, copy editors versus people submitting double spaces after periods.
jul 7, 2025, 1:31 am โข 69 1 โข view
I did point out the person about to die rather than give up double spaces after a period used only a single space.
jul 7, 2025, 1:34 am โข 1 0 โข view
the end
jul 7, 2025, 2:41 am โข 1 0 โข view
Why not just do a global search and replace and move on?
jul 7, 2025, 1:40 am โข 0 0 โข view
Yeah thatโs something people should do before submitting to an editor or whoever is charged with fixing the document
jul 7, 2025, 1:57 am โข 4 0 โข view
Sometimes you can! But in my experience, people who refuse to unlearn double spaces may also refuse to learn to use good templates with tabstops, so a global change can cause bigger issues.
jul 7, 2025, 1:58 am โข 0 0 โข view
good advice indeed
jul 7, 2025, 1:50 am โข 0 0 โข view