On 9/14/2013 1:24 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Reviewing hardcopy is still a very common practice when preparing drafts for discussions in meetings. Even the UTC meetings may want draft documents prepared with wide line spacing to facilitate the annotations duing discussions.
Not the UTC meetings I've been to, but perhaps you have more direct experience for that statement ??
This will help the review, simply because it is faster to anotate a text ducing oral discussions, than using a computer and being distracted while discussions are going on. Lots of paper hardcopies are used everyday in every organisations, and notably in those working on legal texts.
Lawyers also think that WRITING IN ALL UPPERCASE SOMEHOW MAKES PEOPLE BE ABLE TO READ THINGS BETTER. Dunno, I'd stick with typographers and book designers...
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2013/9/14 Asmus Freytag <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>On 9/14/2013 6:24 AM, Michael Everson wrote: On 14 Sep 2013, at 14:16, Stephan Stiller <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Books never used it. The tradition in typing was developed to assist typesetters to navigate the typewritten text they were setting. The typesetters never put two spaces after a full stop. I see. I think you were mentally mixing this up with double inter-line spacing. No, I wasn't. Double inter-line spacing always looks stupid and decreases the legibility of a text. It can't be justified, yet somehow there is a tradition in the US to require it for writing assignments in a university context. It facilitates comment by those who are reviewing the text. Some people get this distinction between manuscript (draft) and publication. As for editing software, instead of being implemented as a text format, spacing should have been done as a view, albeit a printable one. That way, the reviewer (if using hardcopy) could have the wide line spacing without it becoming by force an essential characteristic of the document itself. But reviewing hardcopy is on its way out, so even this issue will disappear... A./
