home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Why must you add five extra spaces to the right margin
- when you are planning margin stops? For many teachers this
- is a tricky question to answer. Here is a detailed step by
- step answer to this question. You do realize that you must
- have a bell or other audible sound to warn you when you are
- nearing the right edge of your paper. Without this audible
- signal you would have to visually scan your work to prevent
- typing off the paper. Your margin should be set at a point
- that will result in your bell sounding exactly three spaces
- to the left of what is considered the desired ending point.
- Thus, when your bell rings it is in effect warning you
- that you have three typing spaces left before you reach the
- desired carriage return point. However, if a word is being
- completed as the bell rings, the return is initiated before
- the desired point; likewise, if the typist is in the middle
- of a lengthy word as the bell rings, normally the word will
- be completed and the return made at a point to the right of
- the desired line ending. On most typewriters the bell will
- ring eight spaces before the margin stop; by adding five to
- the right margin, the bell thus rings at the correct point.
-