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Indented Paragraphs
| February 9th, 2012 at 12:44:29 AM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Nov 9, 2009 Threads: 174 Posts: 2412 | It just occurred to me that even when someone writes something and is taking a lot of care here, no one ever indents a paragraph. Online and in emails, it has become antiquated to do so , I think. Maybe you have to be a certain age to remember what a big deal it used to be. Unindented paragraphs were only used in business correspondence, I think. It was certainly considered, I dunno, sort of rude to fail to indent paragraphs in normal writing, back in the old days. "Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed." Mark Twain |
| February 9th, 2012 at 12:58:58 AM permalink | |
| P90 Member since: Jan 8, 2011 Threads: 7 Posts: 1117 | . . . Today indenting paragraphs would make you read like EvenBob. But you can't indent paragraphs online. Forums don't display leading spaces. . . . I still do it in handwriting. It just makes sense there. In computer text, indentation looks unreadable. It has long been replaced by empty lines. Empty lines waste paper in a book, but online, you really want them. . . . Notice how your text looks much better than mine, because I backdoored indentation and you used empty lines. |
| February 9th, 2012 at 4:53:10 AM permalink | |
| DJTeddyBear Member since: Nov 2, 2009 Threads: 105 Posts: 5714 | Nothing wrong with it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_letter#Indentation_Formats And on computer screens, it's easier to read when paragraphs are seperated. Since there is already seperation, indentaion is redundant. Superstitions are silly, childish, irrational rituals, born out of fear of the unknown.
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| February 9th, 2012 at 6:53:30 AM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Nov 11, 2009 Threads: 218 Posts: 7275 |
It's become inconvenient. In most forums if you press the TAB key, it sends the cursor off the writting area rather than indenting the paragraph. But I do indent all my emails in Outlook. Not in Gmail, becasue it works like a forum... And I do indent when writting in a proper word processor. This space is closed for remodeling |
| February 9th, 2012 at 7:52:15 AM permalink | |
| boymimbo Member since: Nov 12, 2009 Threads: 12 Posts: 2533 | I've been producing business documentation now for the past 10 years. I've never indented a paragraph in that amount of time. -----
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| February 9th, 2012 at 10:53:40 AM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Nov 9, 2009 Threads: 174 Posts: 2412 |
You still handwrite formally?
Good point. "Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed." Mark Twain |
| February 9th, 2012 at 11:14:19 AM permalink | |
| EvenBob Member since: Jul 18, 2010 Threads: 231 Posts: 6400 |
I started writing like this years ago because some people had email that didn't wrap well. Now I find it easy and faster to read posts like this, rather than spread across a whole page. One casino owner to another: "It would be so much easier if we could just hit them over the head, steal their money, and throw their bodies in the creek." Al Swearengen, Deadwood |
| February 9th, 2012 at 11:28:03 AM permalink | |
| DJTeddyBear Member since: Nov 2, 2009 Threads: 105 Posts: 5714 | Bob has a point. But the same can be said for the person that keeps sentences to a reasonable length, and keeps paragrapghs to only one oe two sentences, and skips a line between them. Superstitions are silly, childish, irrational rituals, born out of fear of the unknown.
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| February 9th, 2012 at 11:32:15 AM permalink | |
| EvenBob Member since: Jul 18, 2010 Threads: 231 Posts: 6400 |
I think there's less eye strain reading shorter sentences. Your eyes have to move a lot more when the sentence goes all the way across the page. One casino owner to another: "It would be so much easier if we could just hit them over the head, steal their money, and throw their bodies in the creek." Al Swearengen, Deadwood |
| February 9th, 2012 at 11:46:36 AM permalink | |
| thecesspit Member since: Apr 19, 2010 Threads: 38 Posts: 3106 | You can probably find an extension for firefox that narrows a forum to 80 columns... (or just reduce the browser size)... "Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept through nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire, for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829 |
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