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Feb. 10th, 2005 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmI just had an iPod casting. Anyone who wishes to think the happy thoughts for me, it's most appreciated. Lord that shit was funny.
Later tonight I'll write about Australia and Cyteen or why I realized today that my impulse to reread that book on the flight (I didn't) was actually dead on.
And I found my CDs.
Also, when using a comma a space goes after it -- i.e., "dogs, cats and other animals" (whether you use a comma before the and there depends on which rules you're using). Please conform to this. Please. Because it makes you look educated and aware, and it makes your text (which I and others want to read) much easier to look at ("dogs,cats and other animals" looks like shit. "Dogs" and "cats" are two different words; there is no word "dogs,cats"). I've seen this about 8 billion times on LJ today and finally had to speak.
Finally, I get an inordinate number of hits to my website as a result of people looking for photos of Maltese puppies. I am filled with woe. Cute fluffy woe.
Later tonight I'll write about Australia and Cyteen or why I realized today that my impulse to reread that book on the flight (I didn't) was actually dead on.
And I found my CDs.
Also, when using a comma a space goes after it -- i.e., "dogs, cats and other animals" (whether you use a comma before the and there depends on which rules you're using). Please conform to this. Please. Because it makes you look educated and aware, and it makes your text (which I and others want to read) much easier to look at ("dogs,cats and other animals" looks like shit. "Dogs" and "cats" are two different words; there is no word "dogs,cats"). I've seen this about 8 billion times on LJ today and finally had to speak.
Finally, I get an inordinate number of hits to my website as a result of people looking for photos of Maltese puppies. I am filled with woe. Cute fluffy woe.
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Date: 2005-02-10 08:32 pm (UTC)In standard typing on a typewriter, before the age of "intelligent" word processors, the rule was to use 2 spaces after a period. (This was also the time of "courier" being the standard typeface for a typewriter, and let's face it, it's hard enough to read even with the 2 spaces after a period.) If you look at printed books, however, you'll probably notice that this was not the case. Printed (typeset) books used a spacer after a period that was not the width of 2 characters, but closer to the width of 1 and 1/2 characters. Starting with page layout programs like Pagemaker and Framemaker, and continuing eventually with word processors like MS Word, computer programs began to emulate the look of type-set print in books, and the standard became to use the single space after the period.
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Date: 2005-02-10 08:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 08:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 08:51 pm (UTC)Is this an adoption of the pica (?) bit where they count certain characters either .5, 1, or 1.5 for layout size? It seems I remember a little about that stuff from high school journalism.