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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Double spaced LaTeX
Message-ID: <20336@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 89 02:47:45 GMT
References: <10960@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <2527@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <11021@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
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In article <11021@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> mrwittma@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
(Martin R. Wittmann) writes:
>As a (much less perferred) alternative, does anyone know of a reference
>on typesetting that specifically deals with attractive doublespaced
>layouts?

As the cowboy said, `there ain't no sech animal.'

(1/2 :-) )

More seriously: double spacing (or, better, 1.5-spacing) makes some
sense for typewritten text.  For most typesetting, where the lines are
shorter but contain as many words, it is ridiculous.  Universities
require it only because Universities are run by administrologies.
(Administrology: a group combining the worst features of bureaucracies
administration with the worst features of superstition.)
-- 
`They were supposed to be green.'
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