tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-331112954134298281.post1407925694245554906..comments2010-07-13T21:40:05.205-03:00Papyrus Watcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06387581573973293487noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-331112954134298281.post-62545906563389081902010-07-13T21:40:05.179-03:002010-07-13T21:40:05.179-03:00You&#39;re right, we were always taught two spaces after a period in school, although I have no idea why. It&#39;s normal for official typesetting to only be a single space. Take a look through books, newspapers, and magazines and you&#39;ll see. There&#39;s no good reason to have two spaces - it takes longer and takes up more room. In addition, on the web, HTML doesn&#39;t even support two spaces ... you can&#39;t put in two spaces in a row in HTML unless you enter the special code for a space. Typing 2 spaces in HTML just automatically reverts to 1.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-331112954134298281.post-46994587917924494262010-05-07T00:01:15.929-03:002010-05-07T00:01:15.929-03:00It&#39;s a very good book, and was a good TV series too. From the early-mid nineties, it was before the Papyrus fad (I&#39;m still trying to work out what&#39;s so wrong with people liking a font. I like it too). Still not as bad as the love affair with Comic Sans MS. ;)<br /><br />And yes, what&#39;s wrong with having two spaces after a full stop? That&#39;s word processing/typing language protocol as far as I know. I was always taught that anyway. Single spaces after words and commas, two after full stops, question marks and exclamation marks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-331112954134298281.post-58129110105510354822010-02-24T15:06:57.039-04:002010-02-24T15:06:57.039-04:00What&#39;s wrong with double spaces after a period?<br /><br />Also, is it safe to say that anything from year 2000 and onwards that Papyrus should be considered overused?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-331112954134298281.post-8237833629495246062010-02-10T16:24:27.129-04:002010-02-10T16:24:27.129-04:00Well...we all know that addage about judging a book by it&#39;s cover. That is true here! It came out in the &#39;90s and Papyrus is a very &#39;90s font. But like everything else by Neil Gaiman, still a good read!carlenelikesyounoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-331112954134298281.post-69675228709200716672010-02-10T16:09:36.471-04:002010-02-10T16:09:36.471-04:00The first edition of Neil Gaiman&#39;s story collection <strong>Smoke and Mirrors</strong> likewise uses Papyrus for the cover -- <em>and</em> for the story headings, and the entire table of contents!<br /><br />It should be noted that these date from 1996 and 1997, which was somewhat before Papyrus became so faddish.davidgoldfarbhttp://davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.com