Writing lessons
by Mark on Jul.08, 2004, under Uncategorized
I was reading at work again, and I came across a great website for lessons in writing. Nathan Torkington’s blog at O’Reilly linked to Get It Write Online. Just looking at the first tip in one of the post’s comments, I see that two spaces after punctuation at the end of a sentence is no longer deemed necessary with the ubiquity of variable-width fonts.
The same article tells of other typography issues, as well. I think the most important tip of the article: don’t use the space bar to indent or do other formatting! This is a concept lost on many people who have laid out documents on a typewriter. I can’t count the number of documents I have come across that are laid out improperly using the space bar instead of tabs, columns, or other formatting tools found in even the most basic word processing programs. Most of these documents are Word documents, which include enough layout tools that Microsoft could almost get rid of Publisher entirely from the Office suite (this is just another reason to rid the world of Publisher, the main reason is that it is by far the worst document layout program I have used, and it gets worse with every iteration).
Well, enough ranting. Time for me to get back to some databases and web pages.
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