Double space...
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- Clear
Do you Double Space at the start of every sentence within your copy?
Since we're all designers I've got a design question. As a kid I was told to double space at the start of every sentence. A few years ago a copy writer told me that you didn't have to do it anymore, that all the new programs did it for you (Word, etc..) and I stopped double spacing... Seems that everyone stopped doing it... Well until I saw my girlfriend writing a chemistry paper and I told her she didn't have to double space... Man I got the WEIRDEST LOOK from her. Like I was speaking greek.
What do you guys do? do you still double space? Is it ancient history?
- winter0
Double space marks the beginning of every paragraph. I use it. Designers have nothing to do with good writing.
it's junt trendy and "new". She was right.
- Soler0
hayal no. single space.
- Gilt0010
Aren't you talking about after any sort of punctuation, not how many lines are between each sentence? So you type your sentence, end with a period, press the spacebar twice and start new sentence. That's how you should always do it.
I don't think Word will do it for you, but it will mark it in green if you don't double-space.
- Soler0
Look at any magazine. Noone double spaces between sentences. It would make the paragraphs look all wackity-wack.
- helloperson0
No. Double spacing at the beginning of a sentance had to do with the fact that "back in the day" typewriters and even most word processors utilized monospace fonts (ie Courier). In situations with monospace fonts the amount of character space that the "m" takes up is the same as the space of "." or "i"...
and so double spacing after a period was needed in order to place a discernable amount of space before the next sentance.When using modern typefaces double spacing after a period is not needed or appropriate.
Hope that makes sense.
- helloperson0
Oh... I found some more information here:
- Clear0
see I was told by a writer and then confirmed with a freelance copy writer (writes content for webpages) that Double Spacing was a BIG no no. That you double spaced for type writers, but not on computers. It has long been unnecessary and wrong.
I'm posting this to see what everyone else does and see if my info was wrong
- Clear0
Thanks helloperson
- Soler0
What Clear, you didn't beleive me? You need the blessing of helloperson? An official link? I see how it is..... jk
:-]
- Clear0
sorry Soler, I need documentation if I'm to argue this case with my girlfriend haha
- Soler0
understandable..... Like anything printed isn't enough!