On 07/31/2016 06:23 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 07:36 01/08/2016 +1000, Richard Beeston wrote:
I need to write a thesis and the requirement is to have double line
spacing on each page of a document of approximately 150 pages. Rather
than hit the enter button twice each time especially as I could be
writing long sentences and not wanting to interrupt my thought
process can I set any part of OO to automatically do double line
spacing.
/snip/
Second, you should let your institution know that the world no longer
uses typewriters. It is only in typescript that the concept of double
spacing really exists, since it supposes that the printed output is
restricted to discrete vertical positions. There is no such
restriction on commercial printing or even on printed output produced
by word processors - though it is possible to choose that lines are
separated by exactly twice the default spacing, of course.
There is a very good reason for double-spaced text in any document
submitted for publication or for scholarly discussion or grading. In the
case of publication, it allows the editor to make corrections; in the
second instance, it allows the reader
and or the professor to make useful comments on particular portions of
the text. In the first instance, I speak from some
small experience as the long-term editor of a newsletter which runs from
12 to 20 pages per issue, of which there are
10 per year. Altho I edit on the computer, it is easier to deal with a
double-spaced text as to finding and "repairing" a
given section of the manuscript.
(BTW: /Manuscript/ implies that it was written /by hand/ as opposed to
being typed!)
--doug
