FWIW, I've been told that you're already ahead of the game if all the words on the first page of the MS are spelled correctly. It seems best to give the editor as little reason to resist reading the MS as possible, so professional-style presentation (double-spacing more important than typeface, not a funny font, et cetera) with a header on each page (name, MS name, page #) is the most important element.
Editors are used to seeing MSs in Courier, which is monospaced and kind of ugly, but it's very reliable for technical reasons, and they don't see it as ugly. :-)
Times New Roman also uses space between letters in an odd way. Courier, I believe, is not kerned (which I think means squishes the letters together so you don't have big spaces to either side of the letter i).
Courier is monospace; all of the characters (m, i, 7, and the space) are exactly the same width. That's really its main attraction. So, yeah, I don't think it's got very widely-varying kerning in between letters.
Everything submitted for publication in the humanities in the US has to be twelve-point Courier, double-spaced.
Which, btw, is so. fucking. annoying when you've got to edit it. And, you're, you know, me, and hate Courier.
If you submit it with a wordcount you did yr very own self, it shouldn't matter what font.
Courier hurts my eyes, with all that gappiness where no gaps should be.
On the other hand, the only thing I can write in now in Courier New. Ten point Courier New. Because the characters are exactly the same width; anything else does funny things to my eyes.
I used to really like Courier New. Then, for a time, I was shockingly in love with Courier.
Now I like Times. 12 point. 1.5 spaced. Don't place me near Times New Roman; I'll growl.
I'm currently having a fling with Century Gothic. The clean Art Deco-ish lines please me.
I use boring old 12-point Times New Roman for almost everything, except my resume, which is in some sans serif font whose name I can't recall at the moment, because it's more legible in smaller font size. And, I did it that way to start with and have never completely rebuilt the thing--just added onto it as I've gone along.
I love Trajan, but you couldn't write a story in it.
I don't have it on my computer, so your files come up looking like Times 13. Which is a perfectly lovely thing, but hard to edit in. (I change them to Verdana 9. I'm sure you change them back as soon as you get them.)
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