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Re: Re: Single Spacing, Double Spacing, and Doing It Ones Own Way
Subject:Re: Re: Single Spacing, Double Spacing, and Doing It Ones Own Way From:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 12 May 2004 10:01:11 -0600
Bruce Byfield wrote:
> I guess this thread just goes to show that there are two types of tech-writers
> out there: those who are hired just to do words, and those who are also hired
> to design. If you just do words, then the discussion seems unbelievably
> trivial. If you do design, the disregard for the issue seems short-sighted.
I actually do both words and design.
But in my experience, the target audience of most tech writers simply does
not care about this stuff. I have never ONCE had a user or reviewer
comment on the spacing I've used after periods (and I've done it both
ways, depending on the style guidelines I was given, or the guidelines I
myself established). For the record, I prefer 1 space, but am easily
swayed.
If you're doing page layout for QUE or O'Rielly, perhaps this stuff is
pertinent, and worthy of scrutiny and debate.
But if you're frantically cranking out online help or PDF manuals for
software that is hastily developed and released according to strenous
deadlines, while receiving paychecks from a company ever eager to find
ways to cut costs, you've got bigger fish to fry. That's all I'm saying.
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