Talk:Sentence spacing in digital media

Attribution
All initial article text was split from "Digital age" section of the Sentence spacing article. This serves as attribution. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Airborne84 (talk • contribs) 04:06, 2010 May 24

Monotype vs. monospace
"Monotype" is a company from the late 1800s that produced typesetting equipment. "Monotype" is not a synonym for "monospace." RB 66.217.118.94 (talk) 18:33, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

WP:LEDE
It might have been better to discuss the name change first. On the face of it, it doesn't seem to be an issue, although I haven't given much thought yet as to what "digital age" topics might now be excluded in the article due to the name change. Perhaps none. However, the main issue now is that the first sentence doesn't describe the article IAW WP:LEDE. It should not be difficult to fix, but it will need to be fixed. Since you made the change, feel free to address this issue. --Airborne84 (talk) 22:40, 25 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Sentence spacing in type writers does not change because we have entered some sort of "digital age". Hence "digital age" in this context is nonsense and misleading. It's not digital age, it's digital media. --OpenFuture (talk) 06:40, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

First sentence
This diff reverted a change to the first sentence in the lede. The problem with using this for the first sentence is shown in WP:MOSBEGIN. The first sentence of the lede should be "Xxxx is" to help define the subject of the article. "Xxxx can be" seems like useful developing material for later in the lede. Is there a reason why "can be" should not be changed to "is"? It also seems very close to the issues raised by using "refers to" in the first sentence, discussed at WP:REFERS. I don't see any examples (except for lists) of first sentences that don't use the word is. Thanks. --Airborne84 (talk) 13:43, 5 December 2010 (UTC)


 * First, please note the title of the article, from the message you left on my talk page it seems you have still not realized that the article is not called "Sentence spacing in the digital age". Secondly, it doesn't have to be different, since a computer can use a typewriter font. That said, if you change it to "is" I'm not going to change it back. IMO this should be merged back into the original article. --OpenFuture (talk) 17:23, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I think the title (media) is fine. The only issue is with the first sentence at this point. I'll change it back since using the verb "is" seems more appropriate than "can be" IAW my note above.
 * As far as merging with the "Sentence spacing" article, I think this is probably better as a separate article. The Sentence spacing article only became a Featured Article after numerous editors told me to get rid of then-existing verbiosity and to use the summary style in its sections. To adhere to WP:PRESERVE, I didn't want to summarize the "digital media" section by deleting much of the existing material. I thought it better to move it to this article. The biggest benefit (IMO) is that, users may see that they can create different size spacing in HTML and other digital languages, but may not know how to do it. Wikipedia, as an encyclopedia, provides that information in this article. It's just too much for Sentence spacing.
 * Thanks for your interest. This article still needs a lot of attention, so I'm glad to see others interested in improving it. Best, --Airborne84 (talk) 18:46, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, sorry. The fault for the confusion lies with me. I had realized that the title of the article had changed. I simply didn't change the word "age" to "media" in the first sentence when I reverted it to the verb use of "is". I think the current version accomodates both of our points (although the entire lede probably needs wordsmithing, as you pointed out). It uses the correct verbiage from the title, but also uses the verb "is". Sorry for the misunderstanding. --Airborne84 (talk) 18:54, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Example of font that actually adds space after terminal punctuation?
From the intro: "many modern fonts, such as OpenType, automatically create additional space following terminal punctuation, and users can typically choose sentence spacing variations."

While this feature is possible, has anyone actually seen it in any font? For example, only about 20% of Adobe Opentype fonts kern period-space combinations, and only about 1% kern question mark-space or exclamation point-space combinations. Moreover, in all cases, the kerning values are NEGATIVE (i.e., they tend to reduce terminal spacing).

Far from "many modern fonts," I think the reality is "few to no modern fonts." Unless someone can produce a number of examples of common fonts that actually increase space (or some reliable source that gives such examples), this sentence needs to be changed. For the time being, I am altering the sentence to "Some modern font specifications, such as OpenType, have the ability to automatically add or reduce space after punctuation, and users may be able to choose sentence spacing variations." 76.119.236.172 (talk) 16:23, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Break a line
Regarding:


 * By default, Emacs will not break a line at a single space

Why would it do that, or is it relevant? Isn't that about end of paragraphs? The context here is sentence boundaries.

--Mortense (talk) 10:44, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Coding comments
Regarding:


 * ... when coding comments

Shouldn't that be ... in coding comments? Or perhaps ... in code comments?

--Mortense (talk) 10:47, 6 January 2019 (UTC)