double spacing

Articles for the press should be written with double spacing and wide margins.

See also Double spacing at the end of sentences.

Some state that the habit of double spacing is too deeply ingrained to change.

It should be typed on A4 paper with double spacing and generous margins.

Double spacing: Leaves space for print marks and subbing.

We've spoken about double spacing and wide margins.

If it is unavoidable then type out the script in double spacing with bold headings.

Katrina had typed them out in double spacing.

I did so, double spacing as instructed.

She replied that one's work should be submitted "correctly typed, with double spacing, on clean paper."

For example, a user might be writing notes for a speech in 18-point type, with double spacing and 5-inch margins.

If typed or word-processed, use double spacing.

With the advent of the computer age, typographers began deprecating double spacing, even in monospaced text.

It was double spacing, wide margins and one side of the page and only one page of A four.

"The letter was typed on Toynton Grange paper, in double spacing, on our old Imperial.

'Double spacing' can also refer to a style of line spacing: the insertion of a full additional empty line between lines of text.

Double spacing the text (providing additional leading), provides the copy editor additional space in and around letters, words, and lines to make notes and corrections on the manuscript.

Some sources state it is also acceptable even for monospaced fonts to be single spaced today, although other references specify double spacing for monospaced fonts.

He did, however, insist that Lovecraft retype his first submissions using double spacing, causing the author to remark, "I am not certain whether or not I should bother."

Much modern literature on typography says that double spacing is not desirable, but other sources indicate that it could be used on a typewriter or with a monospaced font.

Computers offered additional sentence spacing tools for the average writer, and the double spacing convention, "as a standard operating procedure ... went out with the IBM Selectric".

There are any number of things students are expected to do to meet presentation standards now: whether it be simple double spacing or tables of contents, footnotes, citation or gutter binding.

In pre-computer days, Thomson papers sold their used page mats to farmers as chicken-coop insulation and Canadian Press printers were adjusted from triple to double spacing to save paper.

One can first compute an approximation on a coarser grid - usually the double spacing 2h - and use that solution with interpolated values for the other grid points as the initial assignment.

The majority of style guides opt for a single space after terminal punctuation for final and published work, with a few permitting double spacing in draft manuscripts and for specific circumstances based on personal preference.