Re: Easiest Way of Proof Reading in Word
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:40:24 -0700
This is my last response, public because what I'm responding to was offered
publicly. Thanks for the link to this discussion. I found it really
interesting, and it went some ways toward allowing me to reconsider the
convention I favor. But I did find some of the answer presumptuous-sounding
and even linguistically questionable, as in the instance where the person
speculates about the import of ancient Greek typography, or whatever it's
better called. That remark sounded anything but informed about the way the
English language and its units function. I was disappointed in that little
rant. But overall, interesting, and good to have read it. Thanks a lot.
----- Original Message -----
From: "G.W. Cox" <gwcox2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: Easiest Way of Proof Reading in Word
So with all this experience, you must have heard of The Chicago Manual
of Style.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.OneSpaceorTwo.html
I've been working with electronic type for 30 years, mostly in
newspapers, now in fiction.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: Easiest Way of Proof Reading in Word
Just to concur with Francis (and, if I recall, Judith as well), double
spacing after a period is standard practice not only in business
writing,
but in education at all levels, in journalism, in creating literary
manuscripts, everything. It has nothing to do with typewriters or
computers.
If it helps for me to say this, I'm a journalist, a published writer,
and
have also taught and tutored English and writing. It's true that a lot
of
people now dash off messages in email and even other sorts of documents
with
a single space, and I'm not sure how this came to be. But bear in mind
that
most of the people who are typing up a storm since the popularization of
PCs
are people who, whatever the level of their literacy otherwise, wouldn't
likely have been communicating so much, or even at all, by typing for
themselves in their daily personal and business lives otherwise. So
this
single space thing just kind of happened, and you understandably can
think
it must be the convention. But actually, it isn't.
the point being, type anyway you want to in email and other casual
stuff,
but if you're writing a business letter or anything else that you'd like
to
reflect well on you, double space after a period.
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Francis Daniels" <fdaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: Easiest Way of Proof Reading in Word
The University of Perdue, online writing guide for business English,
specifies double space after sentences. It's what is taught in any
business
English class. I'm teaching business English here and it's what we
teach.
Not that difficult to do and just becomes part of anything you write.
Francis
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