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Re: To space before a bracket or not to space?

Subject: Re: To space before a bracket or not to space?
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 04:57:44 -0400




Sameh Saeb wrote:


An Example would be the following:
Sameh works for a software company (EnR Solutions) and is a technical writer.
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I am referring to the space before and after the brackets.


You mean your friend's editor wants it to read, ". . . software company(EnR Solutions)and is a . . ."?

If that's the case, the editor is a loon, you should keep doing what you're doing, and your friend should make a mental note not to take this silly practice to the next job.

I suspect, however, that there is some miscommunication going on between your friend and the editor. It is possible the editor is merely trying to prevent, ". . . software company ( EnR Solutions ) and is . . . ." That is something you sometimes see in presentation graphics (PowerPoint) because of the way certain very clunky display faces work--or fail to work--in terms of characters crashing into each other. Throwing in extra spaces around brackets, slashes, etc., seems to improve readability in those situations. But in running text in a magazine, this is never the case.



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