There are many things wrong with the world, many injustices and crimes committed. What if we could stop one of them? Wouldn't it make the world a slightly better place? Before we know it the knock-on effect of good feeling will cause wars to cease and famines to end and the people of the world to embrace with no untoward touchy-touchy happening while they do.
So I present to you one of the biggest crimes of our day, yes:
THE EVIL ABOMINATION THAT IS BAD TYPE LAYOUT !!
(dum, dum, dum, dramatic music).
Mankind has built up a well proven set of standards for laying out type. Breaking any of them means you worship the devil and will burn in hell fire forever OR people will find your text slightly harder to read and be ever-so-mildly less content as a result - definitely one of these if not both. Imagine if your type frustrated someone enough to put them in a bad mood and they end up going on a shooting spree - do you want that on your conscience? I doubt it.
Many of the transgressions are because people are old and the keyboard thingy reminds them of a typewriter and they think they still worship at the alter of ye-olde mono-spaced layout. Well, we don't. It's time to get with the reformation and live by these new commandments:
1. Thou shalt not indent paragraphs. We don't do that "big first letter' thing anymore either or paint little pictures of eve and swirls in the margin or use gold-leaf (too expensive).
2. Thou shalt only press 'return' ONCE to start a new paragraph. To one shall ye count. Never to two. Three is right out. To have a big gap may lead some to imagine you had finished and stop reading. Also shall ye not add extra blank lines after your words lest ye be accused of trying to push the next posters words down.
3. Never shalt though press return lest you really be at the end of the paragraph. A sentence should have no break for such thing is evil in the sight of god and makes those who's screens are different widths to yours not be able to read as smoothly as otherwise they might. Trust in the power of the holy spirit and the text box to automatically wrap the text you type.
4. Unless thou want to scream to the world that thou art an olde farte, you'd best not put two spaces after a sentence. The good lord has delivered us fancy fonts who decide for themselves what the perfect spacing should be. Only one space should be entered after a period. Also it's really a "full stop" 'cause when you American's talk of "periods" we think of something else and chuckle silently inside.
Amen.
We'll now celebrate with a song by the well known font 'Ariana Grande' ...
And a helpful diagram:
