Sneaky.
If you left justify (normal in most cases) the double space after a period makes sense. It's not so much the typewriter that causes it as the justification style you choose.
I rarely justify my paragraphs because weird spacing sometimes occurs and it looks funny to me. I realize it's useful in some cases.
tinlizzie said:I enjoy hearing the background typing on Mad Men -- like my good old IBM Selectric -- but I don't miss using it. Don't miss Whiteout or carbon paper either....
Is there a dinosaur smilie?
But, do you miss the smell of the mimeograph?
tinlizzie said:Not a bit! And I hereby award you a Dinosaur Smilie.
We used to love to smell our papers when the teacher gave them to us! Am I aging myself?...
The typewriter didn't CAUSE it. My apologies, I have been unclear. What I mean is that when we all used typewriters, the double space is what we were taught. Now that we use computers, it is considered unnecessary, and therefore is no longer taught in keyboarding classes. It is neither right nor wrong to double space after a sentence, it is merely noteworthy in determining when you learned to type/keyboard.
i'm getting spaced out...
No, BT didn't put the question mark, so in logical punctuation, it has to go outside the quotes. But, technically, shouldn't it should be, "... getting ..."? Or just plain getting?"getting"?, wait, it should be "getting?" lol
No, BT didn't put the question mark, so in logical punctuation, it has to go outside the quotes. But, technically, shouldn't it should be, "... getting ..."? Or just plain getting?
American practice is to put the punctuation (period, comma, exclamation mark, question mark) inside the double quotation marks. British practice is to put the punctuation outside of the quotation marks. Canadian style typically follows American style except some style guides recommend for legal texts to follow British style. Exceptions are if one uses double quotations to set off software commands, then the punctuation goes outside the quotation marks. Simple to remember. I always have to check British style guides when editing stuff for the Canadian government because the government tends to follow more British style guidelines than other companies, but does a hybrid of American and British that is unique to the Canadian government--or, at least that is my opinion, because I don't encounter this problem (having to check these things) when editing stuff for other NA clients.Ah, yes, thank you. See it's all kind of confusing until you have a good example like this.
American practice is to put the punctuation (period, comma, exclamation mark, question mark) inside the double quotation marks. British practice is to put the punctuation outside of the quotation marks. Canadian style typically follows American style except some style guides recommend for legal texts to follow British style. Exceptions are if one uses double quotations to set off software commands, then the punctuation goes outside the quotation marks. Simple to remember. I always have to check British style guides when editing stuff for the Canadian government because the government tends to follow more British style guidelines than other companies, but does a hybrid of American and British that is unique to the Canadian government--or, at least that is my opinion, because I don't encounter this problem (having to check these things) when editing stuff for other NA clients.