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Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

From:Jake X <starvingpoet@...>
Date:Saturday, June 14, 2003, 14:09
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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