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11-15-2013, 09:03 AM | #23192 | |
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11-15-2013, 09:04 AM | #23193 | |
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I'd tell you to double click the space bar to end a sentence with a period and automatically advance two spaces, but I know you already know that! |
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11-15-2013, 09:33 AM | #23194 | ||
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11-15-2013, 01:59 PM | #23195 |
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friggin' frackin' fuggin' DAMNITTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Arragorn locked me out of the car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have a home inspection like a half hour ago!!!!!!! clients and inspector are there, locksmith on the way.
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11-15-2013, 03:42 PM | #23196 | |
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11-15-2013, 03:52 PM | #23197 | |
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11-15-2013, 04:02 PM | #23198 |
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Understood. However, i learned typing back in the very early 60's and old habits die hard.....They used to come behind you and smack the back of your head if you ended a sentence and DIDN"T make the required two spaces before starting another...I got smacked a lot.....
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11-15-2013, 04:17 PM | #23199 |
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^Agreed. And then in grad school my supervisor wanted one only. It was a hard habit to break. Hard indeed.
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11-15-2013, 04:21 PM | #23200 | |
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From another old broad out in AZ: I can't stop doing it, either. I still type two spaces after a period. Maybe two-fingerers (that sounds kinda dirty, doesn't it?) can do it, but I simply can't. I've been typing for more than 40+ years, and you don't change the habit of a lifetime by simply thinking, "oh, well, ONE space, not TWO." I even do it when I'm typing in Sigil in CV, when editing text. {el shruggo}. I mean, it won't display, it gets taken out directly, so...so what? Maybe 20-somethings will see it as odd, on the off-chance that it does display, but my eyes don't see it as odd at all, still. I just regex in Word or whatever. But even here in the forums, I'm always typing two spaces. AFAIK, the forum (bless its heart) cleans them up for me. :-) Probably the HTML part of the display. Hitch |
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11-16-2013, 02:16 AM | #23203 |
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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.
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11-16-2013, 02:29 AM | #23204 | |
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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 |
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11-16-2013, 07:42 AM | #23205 | |
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