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

On 08/16/2013 01:26 PM, Doug wrote:
> On 08/16/2013 12:26 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, Bruce Carlson wrote:
> /snip/
> > this whole discussion rather puzzles me. I'm out of it because I've
> > never heard of a rule requiring double spaces between sentences (born
> > and raised in the US).
> >
> > esthetically double space insertion annoys me when I have to edit
> > texts but otherwise I don't notice so double spaces neither facilitate
> > nor inhibit reading as far as I am concerned.
> /snip/
> > I gather from Brian Barker's (and others') posts that this has
> > something to do with typewriters - is this a rule one learns by taking
> > typewriter classes? (learned on a typewriter but can't remember if I
> > double-spaced or not.) is it a rule applied to some special area of
> > literature or publication?
> >
> > F.
> Writing for publication should never double space between sentences.
> However, to answer the question, above,when I took a typing class,
> around 1952, I was told to double-space between sentences. In those
> days, if anyone was writing for publication, it would go thru an
> editor, followed by a Linotypist. Then, for book or magazine copy, there
> were galley proofs. And when the type was set, there
> would be no double spaces. Nowadays, when a manuscript (notice that
> the word means "hand-written") is submitted for publication, very
> little editing or proofreading is done--the computer-generated text
> goes fairly directly to the offset press, or whatever typesetting
> system is used. So do *not* double space anything any more! (BTW,
> it's a hard habit to break!)
>
> --doug

As I stated before, I always us double spacing, but will remove the 
extra space if it was going to be needed that way for the publication.  
I use proportional fonts 99% of the time.  I still use the double 
spacing with proportional fonts.

Yes, it is hard to break the habit.  I did some typesetting in the early 
70's around the same time I programmed my first mainframe program.  Not 
only were thee several sizes of glyph spacings, but shims and other thin 
inserts to work with the proportional type width and to justify the line 
on the typeset page.

The question of LO having no adjustable width for spacing.  As for the 
number of Unicode spacings, then use them in your documents, well you 
can but it can be complex to implement since there are many ways and 
rules to choose the spacing and then you have to make it work with any 
printer the document is printed to.



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