On 08/16/2013 12:26 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: > On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, Bruce Carlson wrote: > >> /snip/ > > this whole discussion rather puzzles me. I'm out of it because I've > never heard of a rule requiring double spaces between sentences (born > and raised in the US). > > esthetically double space insertion annoys me when I have to edit > texts but otherwise I don't notice so double spaces neither facilitate > nor inhibit reading as far as I am concerned. > /snip/ > > I gather from Brian Barker's (and others') posts that this has > something to do with typewriters - is this a rule one learns by taking > typewriter classes? (learned on a typewriter but can't remember if I > double-spaced or not.) is it a rule applied to some special area of > literature or publication? > > F. > Writing for publication should never double space between sentences. However, to answer the question, above,when I took a typing class, around 1952, I was told to double-space between sentences. In those days, if anyone was writing for publication, it would go thru an editor, followed by a Linotypist. Then, for book or magazine copy, there were galley proofs. And when the type was set, there would be no double spaces. Nowadays, when a manuscript (notice that the word means "hand-written") is submitted for publication, very little editing or proofreading is done--the computer-generated text goes fairly directly to the offset press, or whatever typesetting system is used. So do *not* double space anything any more! (BTW, it's a hard habit to break!)
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