Forum: Writers


Subject: Hints on the Craft of Writing Fiction - Thursday November 10, 2005

drace68 opened this issue on Nov 10, 2005 ยท 3 posts


Jimdoria posted Thu, 10 November 2005 at 2:47 PM

Hi Dick/drace - Thanks for these tips! Just a couple of comments: #3 - I'm not sure about editors, who I guess have their own requirements for a page of text, but I recently read that non-justified (i.e. ragged right) text is actually easier to read than fully justified text. I don't recall whether the study found that this applied to professionally typeset text, but it was defnitely true for the abysmal justification applied by most word processers. #4 - Most word processors let you customize how line spacing is handled rather extensively. What tool are you using that won't let you eliminate the space between paragraphs?