Douglas_Knight comments on The Sword of Good - Less Wrong

85 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2009 12:53AM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 03 September 2009 07:14:28PM *  1 point [-]

While it does come down to personal preference

It has consequences. Double spaces after periods cause readers to skim. That is good for many types of text, but I doubt most authors want the effect in their fiction.

(and double line-spacing causes readers to read slowly, but not to read well.)