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Re:How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You by musingsole on Monday December 07, 2020 @11:31PM (#25341824)
You really do get to choose if you want 1 or 2 spaces or whatever formatting you want. Certain publishing houses might have style guides that they follow strictly and others less so, but all this just makes the formatting for a book a perfect metaphor to formatting code.
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Re:How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You by tharkun__ on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @07:47PM (#25353804)
You don't. The consistency is within the same book (or maybe publisher). A book would look ridiculous if every paragraph was using a different number of spaces after punctuation.

But between two books its just personal preference whether you agree with the choice the author/publisher made.

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