Re: This Lispofobics really gone too far

William Bland wrote: 
On Fri, 06 May 2005 14:31:55 -0500, Ulrich Hobelmann wrote:


William Bland wrote:

Mine was exactly 100 pages, double spaced.

BTW, what's the point in making everything double-spaced? Is that an American thing?


No. I'm British.

Ok, but (I was in the USA the last 9 months and there) I saw lots of cases where we were supposed to turn in double-spaced stuff and I wonder why.


I wrote a longer paper single-spaced, and I intend to do the same with my Diploma thesis. 


Good luck.  I would guess if you're doing a doctorate, you'll have to
follow the submission rules.  The ones I had (University of Nottingham)
were quite explicit about margin sizes and line spacing.

Oh, I'll surely use whatever format they want. It's just that most theses I see (and most papers published anywhere) are single-spaced, and my supervisors also never mentioned that I should use other than single-space.

I think the point is that examiners like to be able to scribble things in
the margins and between the lines, perhaps so that they can ask you nasty
questions when it comes time to defend your work.

For my Spanish paper that made sense, but in a doctorate thesis there should (I hope!) be no need to write lots of stuff between the lines; margins are totally fine.

Well, I'll see what my professors will tell me...

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