Also please stop double spacing. It took me nearly a decade to break away from Blue Book rules, but hanging on to double spacing at this point is just obnoxious.
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I get a lot of contracts that I get to final pass (after the lawyers) and the last redline of the doc is always a find-and-replace-all double spaces with singles before it goes out the door.
I’m pretty sure I couldn’t unlearn the double thumb tap on the spacebar if I tried. Too many years of reinforcement. I’ll never have to though because I will die on the double space hill.
I was cured of the habit when an editor just marked all the double spaces in a book manuscript and I was the one that had to remove them all. It still happens occasionally, but rarely now.
It was going to print, & Paper is expensive I guess? The real reason is that it is an artifact of monospaced type that made it more readable but with proportional fonts it’s no longer necessary and actually makes it harder to parse. I dunno man, she is the professional editor and knows all the rules
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*me too
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