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  2. Sentence spacing in language and style guides - Wikipedia

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    The 2006 version of this guide to legal citations does not directly address spacing after the terminal punctuation of a sentence, although it does provide actual citation examples from court documents—some of which are single-spaced and some of which are double sentence spaced.

  3. Sentence spacing - Wikipedia

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    Proponents of double sentence spacing also state that some publishers may still require double-spaced manuscript submissions from authors. A key example noted is the screenwriting industry's monospaced standard for screenplay manuscripts, Courier , 12-point font, [ 77 ] although some works on screenwriting indicate that Courier is merely ...

  4. History of sentence spacing - Wikipedia

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    English spacing removed spaces around most punctuation marks, but double-spaced after sentences, colons, and semicolons. [4] These approximations were taught and used as the standard typing techniques in French and English-speaking countries. [5]

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Use the style chosen for the article: unspaced em dash or spaced en dash. Convert apostrophes and quotation marks to Wikipedia's style: These should be straight, not curly or slanted. See § Quotation marks. When quoting a quotation that itself contains a quotation, alternate between using double and single quotes for each quotation.

  6. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (spaces after a full ...

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    When reading a PS single-spaced sentence, it can be hard to tell the difference between comma-space and period-space, or period-space (in reference to an acronym) and period-space (in reference to a sentence ending). With period-space-space, you know that it is the next sentence, without any room for confusion. -- SineSwiper 03:35, 10 Feb 2005 ...

  7. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Depending on local conventions, underscores (underlines) may be used on manuscripts (and historically on typescripts) to indicate the special typefaces to be used: [4] [5] single dashed underline for stet, 'let it stand', proof-reading mark cancelled. single straight underline for italic type; single wavy underline for bold type

  8. MLA Handbook - Wikipedia

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    MLA Style Manual, formerly titled MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing in its second (1998) and third edition (2008), was an academic style guide by the United States–based Modern Language Association of America (MLA) first published in 1985. MLA announced in April 2015 that the publication would be discontinued: the third ...

  9. Standard manuscript format - Wikipedia

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    8.5"×11" or A4 paper size. Courier or a similar monospaced serif font. 12-point (10 pitch) or 10-point (12 pitch) font size. Double-spaced lines of text (set in a word processor as 24-point or 20-point line spacing according to the chosen font size). 24 or 25 lines of text. 1, 1.25 or 1.5 inch margins. Paragraph indentation of 0.5 inches.