Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)
| From: | Jake X <starvingpoet@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 14, 2003, 14:09 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: 10 June, 2003 13:30
Subject: Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)
> John Cowan wrote:
> > My daughter's secondary school teachers, as did mine, want double-spaced
> > even in typed documents, to allow plenty of room for
comments/corrections.
>
> Such was always the case for typed papers in college. And one side only.
> Similarly, mss submitted for publication. Now that submissions to
> magazines/journals etc. are mostly done on floppies, I don't know if
editors
> still want double-spaced, though I suspect for proof-reading purposes they
> do. My last submission for publication was sent on a floppy, but even so
> had to be double spaced.
I guess writing poetry is different, because it is shorter, but when
submitting
poetry mss., floppy is definately the exception rather than the rule, IME.
Jake