That’s probably where line breaks were at some point, and some garbage formatting leaked in when moving the text.
Comment on critical latex mod
lunarul@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Am I the only one bothered by the random double spaces scattered through that text?
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
vale@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It looks like it’s typographically aligned “justified”, meaning it has a standard width and will automatically add gaps between words to make it fit the page. It looks cleaner and used in many legal and academic documents.
lunarul@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’re the second person who thinks I’m talking about the sample article in the image. I was talking about the mod description below the image.
Artyom@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Latex formats lines like newspapers where the left and right side of the text box make clean vertical lines and the width of a space isn’t guaranteed, which might be what you’re referring to. Actually, I’m pretty sure accidentally typing a double space is impossible, latex will remove them and reformat the words as it sees fit.
lunarul@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But that text is not justified and the spaces are not evenly distributed. All spaces are equal except those few double spaces (which are also equal to each-other).
Artyom@lemm.ee 3 months ago
You’re referring to the tweet text? Latex can’t help you there.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Pratchett said the insanity of person can be judged by an excessive use of exclamation points, yet he haven’t lived long enough to see the pure morbidity of someone who frequently uses double spaces and, coincidentially, contributes to LaTeX.
marcos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
In some ways, that’s somebody that made a great effort to let the computer find and correct double spaces…
It’s just a very strong case of that “scratch your own itch” of FOSS.