What era in time do these people think R’s are trying to conserve to, after or before civil rights?

  • @[email protected]
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    41 day ago

    I don’t think writing lists & punctuation in the conventional way is expecting too much. No spaces after periods? Crazy.

    • @AA5B
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      21 day ago

      That’s the problem, isn’t it: whose convention? It never works in the way I conventionally do ot, and takes way too much troubleshooting to make it work. I also have no idea how to do formatting other than lists so would have to look it up. There’s a reason most posts on Lemmy are unformatted, it’s too much effort to get it to work.

      Before you say that’s a me problem: the list conventions I write with work fine everywhere else. Plus I haven’t had to look up formatting syntax since LaTEX

      • @[email protected]
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        whose convention?

        Standard convention taught in every school and observed in every print we read?

        I’ve never seen a convention in English where a space doesn’t separate a period and whatever follows: no instance considered correct where

        They write a sentence.A period ends that sentence.Space is omitted.Next sentence follows.

        See how jarring that looks? Obscene.

        Though if you’ve seen a practice like that in active production out in the field, then I’d welcome to see it. That’d be new.

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          Yet lists can be special

          1. markup is way over sensitive

          2. So even if I use period then space as a delimiter

          3. Maybe I spaced it out

          4. Which works everywhere else