Typing layout

[Purdy Bear]

Ok, bare with me, I'm new here, so if I'm totally wrong please excuse my extreme ignorance. I'v seen a few peoples work thats great but little time is taken with layout.

For instance paragraphs merge into one, with no spaces in between, unlike the above and new speech collide with old.
Is it me, have I found my bug bare! (This is an intentional example).

Please be gentle with this bear. I'v been typing for years so I automatically thought everyone did it the same.

Purdy

 

[chopper]

i think a lot of it - if you mean here in the Critiques section - is down to problems cuttin & pastin text into the editor here. i have to cut, paste, and then spend a few minutes reformatting everything before i post a new excerpt.

if you mean - for example - my general lack of capitals, punctuation etc in general posts other than excerpts, that's just my overall laziness. i take much more care over excerpts.

most people will have read the guidelines in the Stickys at the top of the Critques sectiion before posting; thus i think its a cut/paste interface issue.

s

 

[The Ace]

Paragraphs technically should be separated by an empty line OR by a two-space indent in the first line. I tend to use both, a bit of a faux pas I'll admit.

Any manuscript submitted for publication should also be double-spaced (an empty line between each line of script) to allow proofreaders' corrections, but this can be uncomfortable to read and is, frankly, unnecessary on a screen.

Then, of course, anything written for a post will be rejigged on submission to fit the post format.

 

[Lith]

"Bear" with, not "bare". (You guessed it- one of my little pet peeves...)

Online text is formatted a little different than printed material- the double spaces between paragraphs, with no indents, has become pretty standard.

The other thing is that a lot of forum posting is impromptu. Unless I'm working on a long post, I don't bother to separate my thoughts into organized paragraphs. Not usually, anyway.