Indented Paragraphs
February 9th, 2012 at 12:44:29 AM
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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.
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.
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February 9th, 2012 at 12:58:58 AM
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. . . 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long been replaced by empty lines.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.
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long been replaced by empty lines.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.
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February 9th, 2012 at 4:53:10 AM
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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.
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.
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February 9th, 2012 at 6:53:30 AM
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Quote: odiousgambitIt 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.
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.
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February 9th, 2012 at 7:52:15 AM
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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
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Quote: P90I still do it in handwriting
You still handwrite formally?
Quote: P90Empty lines waste paper in a book, but online, you really want them.
Good point.
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February 9th, 2012 at 11:14:19 AM
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Quote: P90. . . Today indenting paragraphs would make you read
like EvenBob.
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.
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February 9th, 2012 at 11:28:03 AM
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Bob has a point.Quote: EvenBobNow I find it easy and faster to read posts
like this, rather than spread across a whole
page.
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.
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February 9th, 2012 at 11:32:15 AM
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Quote: DJTeddyBearBob has a point.
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.
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February 9th, 2012 at 11:46:36 AM
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You can probably find an extension for firefox that narrows a forum to 80 columns...
(or just reduce the browser size)...
(or just reduce the browser size)...
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February 9th, 2012 at 5:28:23 PM
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Quote: odiousgambitYou still handwrite formally?
No, but I still handwrite. Until they start making tablet computers that weigh 1 ounce, can be safely folded or dropped from any height, come in waterproof versions, and are priced to be larceny-proof, there isn't much choice.
Quote: EvenBobI 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.
There is, but there also are disadvantages. On the net, if everyone kept his posts 40 characters wide, forum pages would stretch very far vertically.
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