atw: Re: Old habits

Moo.

Regards;
Warren

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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of bja
Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2008 00:51
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Old habits

Yes... Let's all go back to double spaces ... Why not triple?

Hang on, I just found my old Vi reference sheets so stuff FrameMaker and
Word as well. In fact... I'll get out my old HP6747 typewriter out of the
back room, then <CR> will actually have meaning again.

And Warren, I think you were already asleep but having nightmares looking at
double spaces.

Nighty night.

:)

Cheers,

Bruce

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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Warren Lewington
Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2008 11:59 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Old habits

Cranky old grammarians. Bah humbug.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHAAAAAAAAAA

AH. I think I had better go to sleep.

Regards;
Warren


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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ros Byrne
Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2008 22:14
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Old habits

I'm with you, Peter.

Given that current research is increasingly showing the importance of space
in readability, I wonder why anyone would NOT want to have more space
between sentences than within them (in the same way that we have more
vertical space between paragraphs than within them).

What's the problem?

ros
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Ros Byrne
WORDS THAT WORK
Training & Coaching in Workplace Communication
http://www.canberra.edu.au/pmp/program/courses/words-work




On 28/10/2008, at 2:05 PM, Peter Martin wrote:

> Kathy Bowman:
> You should know that someone using your name wrote:
>> A lot of the documents I have seen lately have double spaces between 
>> sentences. Are they making a comeback, or am I just dealing with 
>> dinosaurs?
>> cheers
>
> Having hacked a few document parsers, I'd have thought that having two 
> spaces between sentences would be more useful than not.
>
> Is there really any sensible practical reason why there should be a  
> rule to limit sentence spacing to one space ?   Don't see that it's  
> likely to produce any greater legibility or increase comprehension....
>
> --Peter M
>
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