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Re: Single Spacing, Double Spacing, and Doing It Ones Own Way
Subject:Re: Single Spacing, Double Spacing, and Doing It Ones Own Way From:cchris -at- toptechwriter -dot- us To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 11 May 2004 14:45:55 -0600
Hi Steven,
In my opinion, if you plan on working with clients who only care about
content, not about what makes for good design, keep on using double
spaces. Otherwise, using double spaces, allowing widows and orphans, using
double hyphens instead of em and en dashes, and using " marks for quotes
and ' marks for apostrophes instead the correct characters will end up
typecasting you as a novice.
People have already explained in an earlier discussion on this topic that
double-spacing is a holdover from the typewriter days. Now that we have
programs that'll automatically kern letter pairs to give polished looking
results, why would you want to sully that? End up with rivers of white
messing up your nice clean prose. Ugh!
Granted, at this time some type conventions (using double hyphens and
inch/foot marks comes to mind) are still used for the web because Windows
browsers can't display the correct characters. Eventually that'll be fixed
and the same standards for good typography will apply to online content as
to the written page.
Regards,
Chris
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