I derive great satisfaction from properly inserting en dashes.
There were many satisfying things about copy editing — catching a factual error, untangling a confusing sentence, writing a great headline — but for pure, instant gratification, nothing compared to opening a file riddled with double spaces, find-replacing, and seeing them vanish.https://twitter.com/BCDreyer/status/1249104796746944512 …
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I want to tell the people I work with that double spaces are like a dead giveaway of your age. It's proof that you learned to type in Miss Grundy's typewriting class in nineteenseventywhatever or even earlier than that. I did too (in my case it was Mr. Grundy), but...
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...at some point in the '80 I read "The Mac Is Not a Typewriter" by Robin Williams (no, not that one) and from then on I was a single-space gal.
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So true!!
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