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Subject:Re: What is wrong with white space? From:danny <djyoung -at- CTS -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:36:20 -0700
Bev Lockhart <bl -at- SEATTLELAB -dot- COM> writes:
>They changed the rules in between the time I was a newspaper editor and
>became a technical editor.
>
>White space USED to be considered a good thing.
>
>Who are the doc design gurus, and how did they decide upon "the rules"?
>
Money! I have worked for places where the ability to save paper was at a
premium. How to put as much information on a page as efficiently as possible
the goal. Sometimes the sacrifice of white space happened. I sometimes think
in this mode too much.
I think the doc design gurus are specific to the company or industry.
