Opinion regarding formatting

Discussion in 'Polling Station' started by BosonMichael, Nov 12, 2007.

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Which way do you prefer?

  1. 1. Not Indented - No Space

    1 vote(s)
    2.4%
  2. 2. Indented - No Space

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  3. 3. Not Indented - Space

    24 vote(s)
    58.5%
  4. 4. Indented - Space

    16 vote(s)
    39.0%
  1. BosonMichael
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  2. Bluerinse
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    Can you elaborate Mike, why did you ask?

    For what it's worth, i voted for 3. I think 4 is now a bit old fashioned :rolleyes:
     
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    I don't yet want to taint the vote just yet. Let's just say that there's an ongoing formatting debate that I wanted to get customer clarification on. :)
     
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  5. AJ

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    Well my wife, who is a well qualified typist, remember typewriters, insists the text should be formatted as in no. 4.

    I, however, say that in this day and age no. 3 is more common , being due to the advent of word processors. I feel in business 3 if more prevalent.
     
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  6. hbroomhall

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    I was taught that 4 was the correct useage and still to this day use it. 3 is somewhat near, but, IMHO, 'lazy'. :biggrin

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  7. ffreeloader

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    What's the crap with indented first word? That "crap" is how everyone was taught for centuries. Only within the last couple of decades has 3 come into any real acceptance.

    I would have been flunked out of grade school and high school English classes had I used anything other than 4 back then. The parochial school system I attended all the way through high school made you do things the right way. If you didn't, you simply didn't pass.
     
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    and would anyone care to explain the reason for the indent? as I never learnt to format anything that way at school, it was always 3 for me :)
     
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    For the record, most technical books use option number 3.
     
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    Indentation has always been used to show the beginning of a new paragraph. Take a look at most books more than just a few years old. Many were written without the blank line between paragraphs, so the the indentation was critical. Also, anything written using double-spacing needs indented paragraphs to show the beginning of the new paragraphs. How often do you see anything double-spaced on the web? Hardly ever, but I used to write a lot of my papers in high school using double-spacing. That was the format required by the teacher. It looks terrible on the computer screen, but is very readable on the printed/hand written page.

    You're a web baby. You're used to seeing everything on the web. You need to look back at the historical uses of printing and writing to really understand.
     
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    Taught 3, use 3 :)
     
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    4 then 3 for me for the same reasons as freddy. It was the 'correct' way to write but the times are changing.
     
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  13. ManicD

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    I find 3 the easiest to read, generally i will formatt my own documents in this way.

    after that would be 4 mainly because the spaces between the lines make everything so much clearer but teh indents just annoy me.

    next comes 2, the seen alot in old texts its readable and help you keep track of where yoru eyes should be on the page.

    and lastly 1, if anyone writes like this, i cant read it, its just gah!!!
     
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