Originally posted by Babs
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Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!
For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."
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Originally posted by Clark Addison View PostI do two spaces out of habit, because I am old and was taught on a typewriter. Remarkably, I do not seem to have found a strong position on this."More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
-- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)
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Originally posted by Solon View PostSame for me. I learned to type on a typewriter and the habit is just too ingrained. I ran into grief on my MA years ago from a prof. on my committee who wanted me to go back and take out one of the spaces after each sentence (on a 100-page thesis). I told him no.
My committee wanted only one space because they made me use courier new font, so the double space looks really bad in that type. Luckily, MS Word can now find and replace the way only Ventura and Quark used to be able to do, so I changed it before it was set for publishing."Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied
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Originally posted by creekster View PostArt, what does orthography mean?
Originally posted by myboynoah View PostWow, how timely. I'm responsible for compiling and editing a major public market research document for publication in the near future and I've been discussing this with a colleague. I'm going with one space, as well as spelling out percent. I should write a style guide.
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Originally posted by wuapinmon View PostQuark Express's find & replace function would make two spaces into one. When I edited this student journal, we did it and it shaved two whole pages off the journal; times 300 copies, that saved us around $40-50. I can imagine if you were running millions of copies of Harry Potter how a one space would be preferable.
My committee wanted only one space because they made me use courier new font, so the double space looks really bad in that type. Luckily, MS Word can now find and replace the way only Ventura and Quark used to be able to do, so I changed it before it was set for publishing."More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
-- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)
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Originally posted by RobinFinderson View PostI'm a two-spacer out of habit. It is also what I was taught, way back in the late 80's. Has one-spacing always been an option, or has it recently become stylistically acceptable, like ending a sentence with a preposition or beginning a sentence with a conjunction?"More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
-- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)
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Originally posted by RobinFinderson View PostI'm a two-spacer out of habit. It is also what I was taught, way back in the late 80's. Has one-spacing always been an option, or has it recently become stylistically acceptable, like ending a sentence with a preposition or beginning a sentence with a conjunction?
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Originally posted by Babs View PostNot exactly, those are more a matter of rules adapting to reflect vernacular usage that's already in place. This is a matter of rules adapting to reflect how fonts have changed with the advent of word processing.
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Originally posted by Solon View PostFormatting the dissertation is much easier than was my Masters back in 2002.
Tulane, I sent them the file with the margins all correct, and they took care of it all. All I had to buy was 100% cotton paper for my department's copy. BYU, I shelled out over $250 getting the damned thing copied, for no one to EVER READ EVER.
http://primofe1.byu.edu/primo_librar...=Basic&dscnt=0
If that ever says anything other than "Available," I will pass a brick."Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied
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Originally posted by Solon View PostI'll start using just one space as soon as engineers reconfigure the keyboard to make it more efficient.
Originally posted by RobinFinderson View PostInteresting... I was looking at my post and trying to compare it to yours, to see which I preferred, the single or the double space. To my eye they looked the same, so I tried to drag-select the space after one of my sentences, and low, there was only a single space. Whatever the opinion of we the double-spacers, HTML (or whatever supernatural force runs V-Bulletin) seems to enforce the one-space rule against our will. I had never noticed before, but now I feel more than a little violated.
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I think I'll switch to single spacing about a day or two before I convert to writing in that crappy text messaging format. ur l8! lol.
And, Waup -- wow, that's a doozy of a title. I was going to make a joke about it, but I don't want to insult all the effort you must have put into it.I have nothing else to say at this time.
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Originally posted by Parrot Head View Post
And, Waup -- wow, that's a doozy of a title. I was going to make a joke about it, but I don't want to insult all the effort you must have put into it."Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied
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