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[ColorMeSuprised]

Quinnzel wrote...

When they start talking about kerning, Imma pm EvilChris to come in here and put a stop to this nonsense!

What's kerning?

[slyborg]

It's the spacing between characters (numbers, letters, etc.) We might as well talk leading next if we're moving into typography debates now

[Quinnzel]

ColorMeSuprised wrote...

Quinnzel wrote...

When they start talking about kerning, Imma pm EvilChris to come in here and put a stop to this nonsense!

What's kerning?

Typogrpahy speak: the lines in between characters.

[guitarbard]

I'd rather not go THAT crazy, but if we do get desperate...

PS: Quinnzel - Farscape sig win!!!

[ColorMeSuprised]

Thanks for your answers. I used a translator but the translated word didn't make any sense. Learned a new word today!

[Camenae]

I used Georgia and I did double-space. Took some tips from my resume-spamming experience: Georgia makes your text appear larger and easier to read than Times New Roman, given the same font size number.

I didn't mess with fancy line spacing and letter spacing, but try it with you resume/CV. As long as you don't go too crazy with it, it really makes the resume look so much better and cleaner!

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

And here I am using my default MS Word layout settings like a sucker.

I should have used WordArt for the title and The Dark Crystal font for the main text.

Seriously, so long as your story follows the basic layout principles of a standard fantasy novel and isn't one solid block of text without a single paragraph break to be seen, I don't think you need more than that.

[Aenne]

It's fun to read about how different everyone prefers there writing to be.

As for me, 10 font, Times New Roman, Single space. Awww yeh. XD

[ydaraishy]

Courier, 12pt, consarnit. (but I submitted in plain text, so...)

[Mahati]

Hmm. I used Times New Roman, size 12, 1.5 line spacing, added page numbers, and a header too. But that's how I send my stories and articles out anyway, so...

[Tryynity]

Quinnzel wrote...

Lenimph wrote...

Really you gais are talking about line spacing now?

*facepalms*

When they start talking about kerning, Imma pm EvilChris to come in here and put a stop to this nonsense!

Shadow of Light Dragon wrote...

And here I am using my default MS Word layout settings like a sucker.

I should have used WordArt for the title and The Dark Crystal font for the main text.

Seriously, so long as your story follows the basic layout principles of a standard fantasy novel and isn't one solid block of text without a single paragraph break to be seen, I don't think you need more than that.

 It is a simple discussion about Fonts & line spacing

no panic from what Im reading

 - just ppl jawin w/each other to pass the time, K  So youz juz keep your EvilChrises to urself K and NObody's gonna get themselves an injury

LOL

Modifié par Tryynity, 14 janvier 2012 - 02:24 .

[Firky]

If I submit writing for work with any formatting at all, it comes back with a tart request to remove it all NOW.

My entry has a heading, but that's it. Habit.

(But actually, I like hearing what different fonts people use, oddly. Some have a great history attached to them.)

Oh, and, how silly were "page limits" that someone mentioned for school/uni assignments. That was an exercise in how large you could reasonably make words for a subject you hated, and how small for a subject you loved.

[RagingCyclone]

@ Firky...I remember in college a limit of 5 pages in a pre-law class. A girl came in with one that was was 20...and her jaw dropped when the prof took the bottom 15 pages and threw them in the trash right in front of the class. The reasoning the prof gave was that so many written words translated to so many spoken minutes. She treated the papers as oral statement to either a judge or jury. The point she made was you have x amount of time to make your point and no redo's...either you made it or you didn't.

[TEWR]

I used a Kingdom Hearts style font for the title of my story -- though I kinda think the title I thought up was just silly -- and typed the rest in Times New Roman size 12.

EDIT: lol I wrote "stilly". It wasn't just silly. It was stilly.

Modifié par The Ethereal Writer Redux, 14 janvier 2012 - 02:46 .

[The Sarendoctrinator]

Firky wrote...

Oh, and, how silly were "page limits" that someone mentioned for school/uni assignments. That was an exercise in how large you could reasonably make words for a subject you hated, and how small for a subject you loved.

This is so true.

I still remember the time I learned what "double spaced" meant... My junior high class had to write a paper that was three pages, double spaced. I wrote a paper that was two-and-a-half pages, single spaced, but hit the space bar twice between each word. I was so worried that I would get a bad grade because I couldn't possibly make my essay any longer. As it turned out, I did the same amount of work as the kids in high school, who had to write five pages. XD Oh well, lesson learned.

[crystanci]

Face of Evil wrote...

thats1evildude wrote...

Hey! Bioware! I dunna suppose you could speed things up?

If you're in such a hurry, you could lower a rope or a tree branch or find something useful to do. 

Full of Wynn.

[Firky]

The Sarendoctrinator wrote...
 I wrote a paper that was two-and-a-half pages, single spaced, but hit the space bar twice between each word.

Wow. I did that with my first ever uni assignment. Silly uni lecturers should be explicit.

PS. @Raging Cyclone That's both horrfying and every teacher's fantasy. (I was a HS teacher for a while.)

Modifié par Firky, 14 janvier 2012 - 03:32 .

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

If anyone used Wingdings for their font, that's an instant disqualification!

Edit:

Modifié par Shadow of Light Dragon, 14 janvier 2012 - 03:34 .

[Zack_Nero]

Decided to enter the constest, here is my abstract for the story "Second Thoughts."
Zuke trained Templar has been tasked with hunting down any Apostates that is living within Ferelden. As each task becomes slowly loses meaning to himself. Could he ever find something that would be easy? On his new task he is sees something that he never seen before, beauty within an apostate. Now he must choose between the Templar Order that he has lived with his entire life or a woman he never meant before with the dangers of an apostate.

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

@Zack - The competition deadline passed a few days ago. New entries aren't being accepted.

[Mahati]

Shadow of Light Dragon wrote...

If anyone used Wingdings for their font, that's an instant disqualification!

Edit:

Or it could win first prize 

[The Sarendoctrinator]

Is Wingdings one of those fonts that looks like random symbols?  I would hope no one used it.

Firky wrote...

The Sarendoctrinator wrote...
 I wrote a paper that was two-and-a-half pages, single spaced, but hit the space bar twice between each word.

Wow. I did that with my first ever uni assignment. Silly uni lecturers should be explicit.

They really should. I'm glad I'm not the only one who made this mistake before.

[CuriousArtemis]

I make my students upload their papers to me, then I can count the words using MS Word. They are sooo sad when they lose points for it being 749 words instead of 750. Cry me a river. Of course they also lose points for incorrect font, font size, and spacing.

[Mahati]

 They should really define a word limit instead of a page limit. I remember a time when there was an essay on Shakespeare, and someone filled in seven pages of Macbeth - M on a page, A on a page... that person certainly produced over five pages of an 'essay' 

Modifié par Mahati, 14 janvier 2012 - 04:03 .

[Aenne]

Mahati wrote...

 They should really define a word limit instead of a page limit. I remember a time when there was an essay on Shakespeare, and someone filled in seven pages of Macbeth - M on a page, A on a page... that person certainly produced over five pages of an 'essay' 

That's gotta take some balls to actaully do that and turn it in. XD