Kia ora koutou,
The workshops will focus on the basics of what I teach thesis students but there will be time for general or more advanced formatting questions. The workshop will cover things like using ‘styles’ for headings and other types of text, generating automatic tables of contents and lists of figures/tables, using page/section breaks and other general tips about using Word.
EDIT: I will cancel the Thursday session as it has no one attending but 4 people have now said they can’t attend this week, so will schedule the workshop again at a time that suits those people. Do let me know if you can’t make it this week and I’ll do my best to accommodate everyone with a new day and time.
| Date & Time: | 11:00am – 11:50am, Tuesday, February 9, 2021 |
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https://canterbury.libcal.com/event/5298555
| Date & Time: | 2:00pm – 2:50pm, Thursday, February 11, 2021 |
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CANCELLED
Ngā mihi,
Nick
It’s a great idea to run the workshops for staff, Nick. Thank you 🙂 Would it be possible to run them again for staff who are unable to attend that week, please? I guess that you would need to know how many staff would have attended in order to determine demand.
Caroline A.
Kia ora Caroline,
Yep I can run it another time that works for anyone who can’t make it that week.
Nick
Nick, if you could slip something in to try to train people to use one space after a full-stop, I’d be particularly grateful! A page full of holes is a horrible thing to look at 🙂
Good idea, Donna! I dislike the double space after a full-stop too, though I guess some people still prefer it? Or maybe just a habit. Doing a ‘find and replace all’ for two spaces to be replaced with one space works well, though for some reason you usually have to run it multiple times as it only seems to replace some of them each time. Could be that it’s only doing one section at a time.
Nick
I think it’s because sometimes there are 3 or more spaces after a full-stop, so find and replace needs to run through a few times.
Most fonts are not fixed-width, so they already adjust the spacing after a full stop to be wider than a standard space. By adding a second space, it leaves a gaping hole. Most typographers would agree that second spaces shouldn’t be used anymore, but might be ok with fixed-width fonts (personally I think they look ugly even with fixed-width font, but who would write a thesis in Courier New anyway!? )
Thanks Donna! Ah, I see.
An interesting critique I see now on the ‘two spaces are better’ study (I recall reading about the study a wee while back)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2018/05/09/one-or-two-spaces-after-a-period-that-new-study-cant-tell-you/?sh=374297d97b3a
APA uses one space after a full stop https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/punctuation/space-after-period.
NZLSG, the law style, does not specify (though it discusses other punctuation situations), but its own practice shows a single space after a full stop at the end of a sentence.
—John