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Subject:Re: To Space or not to Space From:"Ned Bedinger" <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 4 May 2004 16:15:15 -0700
Well, yeah. But this was a sophisticated reader whose
trained eye had once been employed at MIT Press. The
comment I received was that the pages were visually
distracting because "the eye" sees stark rivers of white
flowing down the page through the two-space gaps between
sentences. I see it too, now that I know. I'm not so sure
it isn't a distraction, at a subconcious level, for most
readers. It is just one of those things, like font
selection, that takes the individual's qualitative opinions
and some scientific study to ever become a quantifiable
parameter of readability.
But no, no average readers.
My $20 worth.
Ned Bedinger
Ed Wordsmith Technical Communications Co.
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com http://www.edwordsmith.com
tel: 360-434-7197
fax: 360-769-7059
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Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 10:36 AM
Subject: RE: To Space or not to Space
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