At 22:38 31/07/2016 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
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 ...
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.
Sorry, but you miss my point; sorry if I wasn't clear. Of course you
are right that it can be convenient to have *extra* space between the
lines of text in a printed document - and the original questioner
will want to provide this, as is required by his institution. But the
idea of *double* spacing in particular is surely a hangover from
typewriter technology, where vertical line positioning was limited to
complete line heights (or sometimes half that). Both commercial
printers and word processors are capable of much finer gradations of spacing.
Commercially printed material sometimes has additional spacing
between lines, called leading (pronounced "ledding" as in Pb and
itself a term that is a hangover from hot-metal technology), but this
does not need to be in whole line heights. A printer may add
two-point leading to, say, ten-point text, and will describe this as
printed "ten on twelve point". Again, word processors allow similar
fine choices about vertical spacing. There are other choices than
Double in Writer's "Line spacing" setting and the effect is very flexible.
I feel that word processor users sometimes think in terms of
typewriter technology, and I took the opportunity to suggest that
wider choices were available here (but then provided the answer
requested, I hope).
(BTW: /Manuscript/ implies that it was written /by hand/ as opposed
to being typed!)
Indeed, from the Latin fourth declension "manus" - hand. But I'm not
sure of your point here. You seem to be suggesting that someone
misused the word "manuscript", but the conversation was not about
manuscripts and you were the only person to introduce the term.
Brian Barker
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