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Doubling spacing?

By Wayne Schiess

"Double-spacing facilitates the reading and comprehension of large numbers of legal documents." State v. Riley, 605 S.E.2d 212, 214 (N.C. App. 2004).

This reader of legal documents disagrees. To me, double-spacing

• uses twice as much paper
• forces me to turn the page twice as often
• makes it hard to skim the document
• takes twice as long to scroll through on the screen

So there.

Full post as published by Legalwriting.net on January 30, 2008 (boomark / email).