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Thisseems like a silly question but I haven't been able to come across the answer anywhere. Within my various packages I have a set of modules, usually each containing one class. When I want to create an instance of a class I have to refer to it twice:

If your classes are so large you want them in separate files to ease the maintenance burden, that's fine, but you should not then inflict extra pain on your users (or yourself, if you use your own package ;). Gather your public classes in the package's __init__ file (or a category file, such as image) to present a fairly flat namespace:

When I toured what we think of as Central High School last fall, I went into what had been the typing classroom. Mrs. Bedwell, the communications arts teacher, said the green typing desk, green cabinets and shelves were left over from our era.

I remember taking typing. My mother made me take it. I was terrible because they took off points for looking at the keys. I still look at the keys! Interestingly enough, my life has turned out fine in spite of not typing properly!

Ken,

I love the picture of the DICTIONARY, a book far too many young people know little about these days.

I enjoyed typing, and I received all three of the little pins awarded. Typing proved to be an invaluable skill in College life.

Thank you for all the memories you evoke!

Sheila

The worst grade I made in high school was in typing. In 1975, they had just begun replacing the manual typewriters with electric ones. I was not lucky enough to be assigned the newer version. I was given typing on my schedule because the art class I wanted was full. I was my one and only C.

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I discovered that this the auto-completion for CSS classes can be turned off by going to Tools->Options and in the Options dialog going to Text Editor->HTML->General and unchecking 'Auto list members' as shown in the screenshot below.

Six years later in college, I changed my major to journalism. I soon discovered one of the requirements to get into my first reporting class was to type at least 25 wpm with only five mistakes. Basically I had to pass the typing test or change my major. I knew I could type up to 25 wpm thanks to my high school typing class, but could I do it with five mistakes or less? I still remember the stopwatch ticking as I furiously pounded the keys on the manual typewriter, knowing my future was at stake. One minute later I passed the 25 wpm mark with seven mistakes.

The practical things Bill taught in that reporting class served me well throughout my career. He nurtured my writing skills, even though the first few articles I submitted were horrible. He taught me to have a natural curiosity about things, to thoroughly research a story as he challenged me to have more sources in the stories I submitted to him.

WHY did you return to the typewriter way of doing things? Two spaces after a period does NOT improve readability; it creates rivers of white space that are most annoying. I read theses and dissertations for a living and was pleased that APA, along with the Chicago Style Guide, recommended the use of only one space after a period. Much to my chagrin, I see that you have backtracked on that. I cannot be the only person to contact you about this. Please reconsider.

Your wish was granted in August 2009, when the second printing of the APA Publication Manual (6th ed.) was revised to clarify that spacing twice at the end of a sentence is optional, and that option is intended to apply only to draft manuscripts (p. 88). A single space is always correct, and may be used in both draft and final manuscripts.

Call me mulishly opposed to being dragged into the future, but as a man in his thirties who learned on the last generation of typewriters and the first wave of personal computers, I will cling to this forever. Yes, I text with two spaces. Early home printers produced type in a very limited selection of fonts and styles, not much more refined than the typewriter (five-option dot matrix? Fun stuff), and these were equally helped by the second space. But I suppose I could make any number of these arguments and still say nothing real to justify my obstinant nature.

My feelings exactly. It slows down the speed of reading very slightly allowing the reader to absorb the sentence info better. It is psychological but valid. Also, a serif font is easier to read, instead I increasingly see non-serif fonts used for text. The serifs keep your eye on the word much easier than the non-serif (like the font used in this blog). The font looks modern but has no advantage.

Two spaces make me crazy, but for good reason. When learning to use a typewriter we all were told to use 2 spaces. That was correct for the typewriter. It was correct because the font on your typewriter was monospaced. Each letter took up as much space as any other letter, like a i or a w. Our eye needed the 2 spaces to see where one sentence ended and the next started. When we moved on to computers this is no longer needed. In fact it makes the copy harder to read. I design fonts at Outside the Line. When I finish an alphabet font I spend over 40 hours kerning the font. Kerning adjusts the space between individual letters such as a combination of AWA. This looks nice here because a diligent type designed kerned this font. So now everybody lose the 2 spaces!

Although by all means I agree the legal and academic fields tend to over-respect tradition as well as tend to be function-over-form, as someone who reads a lot of white papers and other formal and technical documentation, I do find that two spaces between sentences is generally (especially with fonts such as Times New Roman) noticeably more readable across many pages/hours of reading. I fear that the design rule of going to one space is too great a bow to the culture of increasingly succinct communication as well as perhaps not recognizing ergonomics.

Secondly, it is an accepted fact in the field of technical writing that generous use of white space improves readability and comprehension. If that extra space adds even one iota of readability of a manual of instruction in the emergency procedures of a nuclear generation plant, I want it to be there and I think you do too.

Actually Jenniefer I think the point is being completely missed on why you should think (ha!) twice before hitting the space bar twice at the end of a sentence.

First, I believe that typeface and font design is completely subjective, and up to the designer and user of it. So how can any one suggest a modification of spacing on a line of copy is just plain wrong?

In reality though the reason why in most cases you should refrain from two spaces is when the line breaks and could cause a new line to start with a space. That of course looks odd. Like a false start of a new paragraph. And if some one else is going to flow your copy on to a page using A page layout tool, then you would be causing extra work for them as they will have to remove the spaces, so they can has the control they need to design the page.

Honestly, I cannot believe the utter collossal waste of time spent discussing the one space or two space after a period theory of typing. I learned the two space way and have no problem continuing or discontinuing using two spaces. Life is good if this issue takes up so much of our space and time.

I teach keyboarding in high school. We still use two spaces. The brain can much more easily visualize the difference between an abbreviation and the end of the sentence. Know this is greatly debated in journalism due to space requirements. But on a regular paper or email, use two!!!

I just walked over to the study to ask my wife, who was born and raised in France, about them using a space before the punctuation. She told me that it is an aesthetic value of clarity and has nothing to do with grammar. Evidently nothing looks worse than a word ending with a w or m followed by an exclamation mark.

I do agree that double spacing can be bad looking if a paragraph uses justified alignment. This is because each space can ordinarily be expanded by justifying, and so doubling spaces can lead to huge islands. It also increase the odds that a word will be pushed off to the next line, which will have the effect of increasing the size of all spaces, including the double spaces. This effect is most harmful when the width of a line of text is small, like in multi-column newspaper-style text.

Eventually we get to the Transitional style, which is even more mechanical, features more details and has a higher contrast because technological advances allow this to happen. In typefaces like Romain du Roi you can see there is a tendency to design typefaces according to geometric rules. I have to confess here that the double space can often be seen in this period, in France at least. The French still have a few specific typographic practices which deviate from the general standardization though, so it might not be fair to base our typographic practices on what the French do. However, during this time the French created a campaign to enforce their ideals around typography and this was in fact the very reason Romain du Roi was designed, so France could join the fun the Italians, Dutch and English were already having.

There are two separate debates: the one about whether people should be continuing to press the space bar once or twice in the age of digital fonts, and whether we actually want to use much longer spaces after the ends of sentences than we do between words. In the former, pretty much the entire publishing industry is agreed that only one space is the way to go. In the latter, I kind of have a fondness for this kind of thing:

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