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RE: Single Spacing, Double Spacing, and Doing It Ones Own Way
Subject:RE: Single Spacing, Double Spacing, and Doing It Ones Own Way From:"Wade Courtney" <courtney -at- hsq -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 10 May 2004 12:06:58 -0700
See my dos centavos below.
> 1. How many people out there agree with me that the single-space
> convention is flawed, and should be reconsidered?
That would be like asking "Who is with me that Macs and Word Suck?" Even if
you get a group of people together that agree with you, what would you do,
have a double space march on Washington. This is a trivial argument. A
person will use what is required of them by their client, style guide, or
conscience.
> 2. For those single-space fans out there, how many of you would reject a
potential writer simply on account of his use of
> double-spacing on a Web site, or resume?
If they rejected me based on single or double spaces without knowing the
requirements of those documents, then I wouldn't want to work for that
person anyway. They would be too anal retentive to see any value in my
writing ability. As far as the web is concerned, it's a single space world
unless the W3C has changed the HTML spec. And the thought of inserting
non-breaking spaces is not a scalable solution and just plain wrong.
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