[Dragaera] A Paarfict Storm

[David Dyer-Bennet]

Diana wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2008 10:57 AM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote:
>   
>> Howard Brazee wrote:
>>     
>>> Diana wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> A very minor note, again regarding spacing: double spaces after
>>>> periods (or other forms of punctuation) are unnecessary unless one is
>>>> using a typewriter font (which I sincerely hope the final product will
>>>> not be).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> A quick check shows no big gap between sentences in the books in
>>> question.    It seems to me that at one time type set books often had an
>>> extra half space gap, but that was when type was set by hand.
>>>
>>>       
>> And posts to this list, particularly of text in development, might well
>> be regarded as manuscripts, which in modern practice still *do* call for
>> double spacing after sentences.
>>     
>
> Even when a proportional font is being used? I don't think I've ever
> seen one in a monospace font, and personally, I'd much rather authors
> be able to do a find and replace to get rid of all double spaces
> before they finalize their files, just so that I don't have to worry
> about typesetters missing some in the middle of a sentence. (And then
> trusting that the proofreaders will catch it. And on, and on...)
>   
Manuscripts are not submitted in a proportional font.  The font seen in 
the mailing list is whatever font ones mail reader is set for -- 
monospaced in my case.

Standards may change as it becomes more common for the authors file to 
actually be used as the basis for typesetting, because of points like 
the one you make.  I don't know if or how often big publishers are doing 
that yet, though.

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