Re: Re: Single Spacing, Double Spacing, and Doing It Ones Own Way

[eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com]

One would have thought that getting the users to open the manuals and 
simply look at the pages would be a large enough victory.

Looking for studies and data to support arcane minutia that is of minute 
importance when compared to actual content in a well organized context 
just seems like so much counting of chickens before they're hatched.

Most of the technical documentation I've ever read would become infinitely 
more useable if the language and organisation were better.

Under such circumstances who cares how many spaces are after a sentence. 
:p

And even if your prose, organisation, grammar, and content were all 
perfect how much of a technical document consists of large tracts of text 
that would be helped or hindered by 'rivers of white' or 'clearly marked 
sentences'?

You all have FAR too much time on your hands.

Eric L. Dunn
Senior Technical Writer

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