On 9/14/2013 1:24 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Reviewing hardcopy is still a very common practice when preparing
drafts for discussions in meetings. Even the UTC meetings may want
draft documents prepared with wide line spacing to facilitate the
annotations duing discussions.
Not the UTC meetings I've been to, but perhaps you have more direct
experience for that statement ??
This will help the review, simply because it is faster to anotate a
text ducing oral discussions, than using a computer and being
distracted while discussions are going on. Lots of paper hardcopies
are used everyday in every organisations, and notably in those working
on legal texts.
Lawyers also think that WRITING IN ALL UPPERCASE SOMEHOW MAKES PEOPLE BE
ABLE TO READ THINGS BETTER. Dunno, I'd stick with typographers and book
designers...
A./
2013/9/14 Asmus Freytag <asm...@ix.netcom.com
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On 9/14/2013 6:24 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
On 14 Sep 2013, at 14:16, Stephan Stiller
<stephan.stil...@gmail.com <mailto:stephan.stil...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
Books never used it. The tradition in typing was
developed to assist typesetters to navigate the
typewritten text they were setting. The typesetters
never put two spaces after a full stop.
I see. I think you were mentally mixing this up with
double inter-line spacing.
No, I wasn't.
Double inter-line spacing always looks stupid and
decreases the legibility of a text. It can't be justified,
yet somehow there is a tradition in the US to require it
for writing assignments in a university context.
It facilitates comment by those who are reviewing the text.
Some people get this distinction between manuscript (draft) and
publication.
As for editing software, instead of being implemented as a text
format, spacing should have been done as a view, albeit a
printable one. That way, the reviewer (if using hardcopy) could
have the wide line spacing without it becoming by force an
essential characteristic of the document itself.
But reviewing hardcopy is on its way out, so even this issue will
disappear...
A./