Re: [bug-gtypist] Are double spaces after periods still relevant?

[Tim Marston]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:51:36AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> The other thing to discuss is "what should the default behaviour be?" I would 
> argue that no matter
> the aggravation it causes old users, one space should be the default. That 
> is, make people wishing
> to cling to legacy style rules do the extra work to configure gtypist to suit 
> them, not the other
> way around.

Yes, I agree.

> Can the same case be made for making -w the default? Surely we should 
> discourage, not encourage,
> pressing enter at the end of every line? (But this would require the option 
> to be negatable. I'm not
> sure if it is ...)

I see what you're saying--that, while using modern word processing
software, we tend not to use the enter key and let the software lay out
the text for us.  I would tend to agree, except that we *do* still use
enter (between paragraphs, for example) so that might still make it a
useful key to learn to press whilst typing.  (I'm not saying that I
think it is, I'm just trying to present an alternative point of view.)

All the best,

-- 
Tim Marston
ed.am