| new hope [message #64529] |
Sun, 01 February 2004 07:29   |
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boma57
Messages: 581
Registered: April 2003
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Anything below 10 is spelled out; such as seven, two, nine, six, etc...
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Actually, in formal literature (such as a novel), I'm pretty sure that you're supposed to spell out anything unless it's a rather large number, a date, a quote, a name, etc.
"There were twenty-three people ahead of him in line on that fateful day: February 1st, 2004. The only other line open was the '10 Items or Less' line, but he had 1,023,403,445 items. He'd just have to wait. While waiting, though, he saw a tabloid with '57' scrawled across the cover. In blood."
About the spaces...putting two is just an old aesthetic tip from the days of typewriters, and has no basis anymore. If you put two spaces after a period in HTML, only one would display (unless you want to type in the code for a non-breaking space every single time). Plus, it's difficult to notice in most fonts anyway unless you're using Courier.
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