Our next unelected PM?

[catsmate]

Seems a rather strange thing to hang onto as it was only ever because of a limitation in one type of technology, that limitation no longer exists but you want to still correct for it therefore now creating an error....

Shades of the 16550A...

 

[jeremyp]

It isn't wrong, it's just personal choice.

No, it's wrong. Professional typesetters don't do it and there's no need for anybody else to do it, except possibly with a fixed width font.

 

[Francesca R]

As long as it’s legal I can cope with wrong

ETA Look at that I am so used to the double space providing the full stop that I often end up missing it off otherwise.

 

[GlennB]

That's because multiple spaces after a full stop (aka period) are wrong. It was only ever introduced due to the limitations of typewriter fixed width fonts.

They're not "wrong" at all, they're a matter of personal choice. If, for example, you want to type a simple list suitably spaced here on ISF the s/w would strip out your formatting spaces and the alignment would go out the window. For example, this little list is nicely formatted until I post it (quote it to see the original, but it'll only be visible while you're adding your own comment):

Jones 100 123.14
Williams 99 64.02
Lee 7 2345.00

The only way to get it aligned is to create a table, which is a nuisance and introduces boxes where you might not want them. Reducing everything to a single space against the wishes of the writer seems totally arbitrary to me.

 

[Francesca R]

Reducing everything to a single space against the wishes of the writer seems totally arbitrary tyrannical to me.

Corrected.

 

[GlennB]

Come and see the violence inherent in the system!

 

[ceptimus]

I think maybe you can use the code tag (plus a fixed-width font if the code tag doesn't do that automatically) to preserve spaces and format?

Testing:

*   *  ***    **  
 * *   *     *     It seems to work.  <- That was two spaces!
  *    ***    *   
  *    *        *  Although I admit it's a rather convoluted way to post! 
  *    ****   **

Reducing all blocks of whitespace to a single displayed space is standard HTML behaviour unless you use the <pre> tag or similar, so it's not really something specifically intended by the writers of vBulletin.

 

[GlennB]

Thanks for the effort to help, but it seems to come out funny:

Jones     100     123.14
Williams   99       64.02
Lee            7   2345.00

 

[GlennB]

dupe

 

[ceptimus]

Thanks for the effort to help, but it seems to come out funny:

Jones     100    123.14
Williams   99     64.02
Lee         7   2345.00

It's awkward, because although the final post (code section) renders as a fixed width font, you're still using a proportional font in the editor - so letters like H and M are wider than I, and much wider than a space. The solution is to prepare your post in an editor, such as NotePad, that does use a fixed width font - that way you can see what your eventual post will look like. Then you copy & paste the text to the forum post editor, where it looks misaligned because of the proportional font, but then if you preview or post, it will come out right again.

Like I said, it's really only a curiosity - too much trouble for normal work.

 

[Andy_Ross]

what the **** does any of this have to do with the PM?

 

[a_unique_person]

Nothing. People could use the code format if they want to fix half those problems.

 

[GlennB]

what the **** does any of this have to do with the PM?

Jacob Rees-Mogg has demanded that full stops be followed by double spaces.

He'll be disappointed if he gets printouts of ISF posts

 

[a_unique_person]

Jacob Rees-Mogg has demanded that full stops be followed by double spaces.



He'll be disappointed if he gets printouts of ISF posts

He'll be be very, very disappointed if he reads any of Trump's tweets

 

[The Atheist]

what the **** does any of this have to do with the PM?

It's a lot more likely to be useful than Boris, or any discussion about him.

He's a gigantic, over-privileged twat. Not much more needs to be said.

 

[a_unique_person]

As    many    spaces     as     could      ever      want!!!!

 

[ponderingturtle]

Perhaps they are going to use the wonderful new technology they will have running at the NI/Irish border on the 1st of November?

Sure once they finish with our Wall.

 

[catsmate]

Sure once they finish with our Wall.

It'll be good practice for the Great Scottish Wall.

 

[KDLarsen]

Interesting read on some of the advisers being brought in by Johnson:

They’re young, they’re ambitious, and many are of a libertarian bent. A new cadre of special advisers has entered Downing Street and various ministries under the regime of Boris Johnson, suggesting radical rightwing thought and true believers in hard Brexit are in the ascendancy.
...
But one of the most radical appointments is Munira Mirza, who heads Johnson’s policy unit after serving as his deputy mayor for arts for eight years. Her appointment to such a senior job in charge of all policy was unexpected given her lack of experience in Westminster politics.
...
Over the years, she has been a prominent critic of multiculturalism as a government policy, opposing Theresa May’s racial disparities audit for public services by claiming the “scene was being set for another bout of political self-flagellation regarding the subject of race in Britain”. She is also co-founder of the Manifesto Club, a pressure group challenging the “erosion of public freedoms”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ushers-in-radical-new-era-of-special-advisers

 

[GlennB]

Interesting read on some of the advisers being brought in by Johnson:

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ushers-in-radical-new-era-of-special-advisers

Looks like she's a Trotskyist 'sleeper'

"Many of Mirza's Revolutionary Communist Party colleagues became influential in Conservative Party Eurosceptic circles after the dissolution of their party, while remaining closely associated with each other's endeavours"

Munira Mirza^WP