On 05/04/18 12:23, Mick wrote:
On Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:57:54 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:12:23 BST Wol's lists wrote:
On 02/04/18 21:50, Philip Webb wrote:
180402 Dale wrote:
After each period at the end of a sentence, I put in two spaces, not
one.
Something I was taught years ago somewhere and still do.
I only put one after a comma tho.
That is correct professional secretarial style, which I always follow
too.
I was taught to always start every paragraph with an indent. Which I
believe is against "professional secretarial style".
There seem to be two alternative styles: either indent the start of a
paragraph, or leave a blank line before it. I learned at an early age that
an indent marked a new para (not some empty space that usually just
happened to be left at the end of the line before) - I remember arguing
that point at primary school, some time in 1952 - 1954.
I don't know the correct terminology, but if the title is centre-aligned the
paragraphs' first line ought to have a single space indent. When I was in
primary school this was the prevailing style.
Don't you mean a single tab indent :-) This was the style I was supposed
to write in (with a *fountain* pen, at *primary* school - probably at
about year 5 or 6), and the indent was about the space of the word "and".
With the advent of word processors the titles as well as the paragraphs became
left-aligned with no space at their start, but this may have been a
typesetting style BC (Before Computers). :-)
When I started using a typewriter, the indent was always 5 spaces. And I
kept that style when I moved to a word processor (despite being told off
by the typists). When they typed up my letters I think I told them "it's
my letter, do it my way" :-)
(I *hate* using the word "secretary" to refer to a typist - a proper
Secretary has a legally-recognised, degree-class law qualification - my
mum was one.)
Cheers,
Wol
