wildgeese177

@wildgeese177 (30)

United States • Age 67

Joined myLot 17 years ago

Discussions (4)

wildgeese177's Discussions

two-letter hyphens

wildgeese177 @wildgeese177 (30) • United States 17 Jul 07

Has it become common practice to hyphenate a word, and on the next line leave only two letters dangling? I know the new graphics program we're using allows this, but I call my designer to task and force him to fix it. Move...

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Runaround

wildgeese177 @wildgeese177 (30) • United States 17 Jul 07

Some, including my staff, might say I'm very picky. But how in the heck annoying is it when the text is closer to a photo or graphic on one side, then far away on the other? I know relief space in the form of white on a...

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Orphans/widows

wildgeese177 @wildgeese177 (30) • United States 27 Jun 07

OK, you're looking at the layout just back from the design team. One paragraph is five lines long, but the last line has only three letters in it, perhaps even a partial word that's been hyphenated from the line above. In my...

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Things that, people who

wildgeese177 @wildgeese177 (30) • United States 26 Jun 07

As an editor, how irritating is it to you when a writer doesn't understand that a company is an "it" instead of "they?" Or they give you sentences like, "The people that started the project," instead of "the people who started...

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