Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting

Hi :)
One practical up-shot of this is that when i collect articles for my companies newsletter i;
1.  Paste into Writer as "unformatted text and apply styles
2.  Search&replace all ". " (single spaces) with ".  " (double space) but that makes some into 
triple spaces!  So,  
3.  Search&replace all ".   " (triples) with ".  "
4.  Then look through for anything weird.  

I don't have to worry about other ways of ending a sentence because we carefully avoid making our 
newsletter look remotely interesting enough to read.  Certainly no double or triple exclamation 
marks and as few pictures as possible!!  A bit like the leaflets made to attract people to 
LibreOffice.  
Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Bruce Carlson <Bruce.Carlson@nepean.com>
> To: LibreOffice <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013, 2:07
> Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting
>
>
> An interesting observation Virgil.
>
> When I went to school, mind you it was several lifetimes ago and in the backwoods of the 
> Australian outback so it may not be too relevant to anywhere else on the planet but, I was told to 
> always leave a double space at the end of every sentence. That was with hand writing, before 
> typewriters were invented, at least there were none within several hundred miles of where I grew 
> up.
> These days with modern word processors I just don't bother to even try and insert two spaces at 
> the end of sentences but I suppose I should, it certainly looks nicer and may even be proper.
> It would be nice if modern word processors at least provided the option of a setting to do this 
> automatically. Perhaps it should be the default setting.
>
> (please note no double spaces used in this text)
>
> Cheers all, 
>
> Bruce Carlson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Virgil Arrington [mailto:cuyfalls@hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013 10:29 AM
> To: James Knott; LibreOffice
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting
>
> I got my information from Robert Bringhurst's book "The Elements of Typographic Style."
>
> I have noticed that older books from the 19th century had wider spacing after sentence ending 
> punctuation. Newer books, say from the mid 20th century on, seem to have narrower spacing between 
> sentences.
>
> Virgil
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Knott
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 10:22 AM
> To: LibreOffice
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting
>
> Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > The typographic standard is to only use one space between sentences 
> > with proportionally spaced fonts.
>
> In the old hand set type (which I have worked with) there were different width spaces (en & em 
> quads), depending on where they were used.
> Typically, an en quad was used between words and an em quad between sentences.  The names refer to 
> the width of upper case N and M characters.  So, the space between words was as wide as an N and 
> between sentences, an M.  There were also wider ones, such as double M and triple M.  Typesetting 
> machines, such as the Linotype also had provision for different width spaces.
>
>
>
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