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AmbrMerlinus · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:39 am Post subject: Standardized Story Formatting

I know it bugs the heck out of me to try and read something with the paragraphs all squashed together. Some people don't realize that when you copypaste a body of text from a word processing program to the internet, the tabs don't carry over. That means there's no paragraph indentation. To combat this, I usually recommend double-spacing in between each paragraph. Yes, you have to go through your entire body of text after you copypaste it and put in the spacing manually, but it's usually worth it because it makes the text as a whole that much clearer and easier to read.

So my suggestion is to make this sort of spacing mandatory for all prose text posted in the forums, for the sake of the reviewers. It makes things a lot easier.

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Lilith · circle keeper Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 38

I'd like to comment, that with prose poetry, it may disrupt the flow.

Other than that, I'd assume this will go through.

eleison · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:44 am Post subject:

Well, poetry in all its forms has its own little rules. I think that for the strictly prose boards this is an excellent suggestion as it is one of my pet peeves as well.
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Lilith · circle keeper Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 38

Cool with me, so add it to the rules.

eleison · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:54 am Post subject:

It is done!

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AmbrMerlinus · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:21 pm Post subject:

Huzzah!
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