![]() ![]() That study is legit, but, the Washington Post reports, studies over the years have yielded conflicting results. You might have read about the 2018 study published in the journal “Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics” and reported by the Atlantic, which crowned two spaces the winner for helping participants read slightly faster. The double space - and other defunct sentence spacing - existed before the typewriter, and some typesetters as far back as the 18th century used the single space.Īnother fun fact from Felici: In the 1960s, electronic phototypesetting systems got the jump on Microsoft Editor and automatically collapsed double spaces into single. Digital-age word processors and content management systems use variable-width fonts (what you’re reading now), so periods hug tight to a sentence’s end, and one space leaves plenty of breathing room before the next begins.īut the debate existed long before word processors came along, journalist and editor James Felici detailed in an essay. The logic goes: An extra space after a period helped distinguish one sentence from another in a typewriter’s fixed-width typeface (similar to the font Courier New). Most modern lore cites typewriters as a practical explanation for the double-space habit. Some legal writers still insist on two spaces, as well, but the American Bar Association recommends a single space. ![]() Of the major guides, APA Style - which guides some academic writing - was the lone hold out in the two-spaces camp until 2018, when its seventh edition finally recommended one space. Writers and editors tend to have serious feelings about grammar, style and usage - like whether the Oxford comma is necessary - but any editor worth her salt will admit no single rule about how we write is universally correct or incorrect. But no Grammar Goddess has ever carved this or any rule into stone. It’s one of hundreds of miniscule style choices publishers, writers, editors and style guides make about their content. Most style guides, which lay out the norms for how industries including book publishers, newspapers and academics write, have made the switch to favor a single space between sentences. Two spaces after a period is not incorrect - nor is it correct. Is a double space after a period actually incorrect? The update is included with the premium version of the company’s new Editor, a browser extension and new Word feature that makes spelling, grammar and style suggestions akin to tools like Grammarly and ProWritingAid. Word will now flag two spaces after a period with that dreaded Spellcheck-style squiggly line and suggest a single space to replace it, The Verge reports. Its verdict? Two spaces after a period is out. Maybe this will snuff the flames on this decades-old dumpster fire: Microsoft Word, that powerhouse in word processing, has finally weighed in on the great space debate. I know you’re duty-bound as a wordsmith to engage in a raging debate about sentence spacing now that I’ve brought it up. Sorry for derailing your day and that of the poor non-writers in your household. a fascinating and genius idea for its time, worth your study.Do you use one or two spaces after a period? Switching IEC check off does take away a coding quality check that the compiler helps you with.Īs for the S5TIME. In some cases it is required (but let's keep that a secret). Step7 in TIA Portal can be set to ignore the IEC ruleset. it aims to help avoid errors associated with mixing datatypes. The IEC ruleset comes in play with modern designs. In the older PLCs the UINT did not exist, so the WORD was used instead. Mixing the two types in calculations can have a problematic effect. The meaning of the patterns of INT and UINT is different. Most cases a WORD is used where individual bits have meaning. It has no official meaning, but it does not mean that the code designer does not have a pattern in mind. The meaning of the pattern of the bits are however different. The storage footprint is therefore the same. INT, UINT, S5TIME and WORD datatypes are all word sized. This would be what tags can be assigned to. But 'WORD' can also mean 'word data type'. 'Word' or better coined as 'word size' can mean a grouping of 16 bits. But the meaning of those 16-bits can be different. I feel like they have the same size so why are there two names?Īm I missing something? It's just a basic question that'll help me understand the concept amount of bits that make up a Word and Integer is the same. ![]()
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