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Originally Posted by wannabee
Yep, a lot of you old folk who double space also never learned how to set up a tab either. Thank goodness for find and replace. The first thing I do when laying out a book with supplied text is get rid of the double, triple and quadruple spaces.
LOL it's not a typewriter.
It's a wonder you guys don't liquid paper the screen.  |
Hey, wannabe?
Not only do we know how to find and use tabs, we also know
how to type. We know how to center. We know how to find opening and closing tags. I trained about 50 people on how to use the first "real" Word processor, the IBM OS/6. The people who use spaces? I find that they're YOUNGER, not older. The least-trained typists I see (and I see a LOT of them, given my line of work) either tend to be a) over 70, and can't understand that word-processors don't work like typewriters, so they actually DO tab over for
everything, and actually hit "enter" at the end of every line, BEFORE it word-wraps, and b) young people. These people are surpassed only by total technophobes (we've had a few) that actually dictate their books which are subsequently transcribed by typists
for them.
It's younger typists, with zero training, who hit "space, space" to start a paragraph, followed by, on the next paragraph, "space space space," followed by a paragraph with 4 spaces, followed by lower-case text. To START the sentence. And don't get me started on where they got the idea that dialogue paragraphs and narrative paragraphs have different types of indentation...that one eludes me completely.
I've seen between 3-4,000 manuscripts over the past 4-5 years, of which 2,000+ we've made into ebooks. The typists who hit "space-space" at the end of a sentence cause the
fewest of our clean-up issues.
Hitch