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

On 08/16/2013 10:08 PM, James Knott wrote:
> Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > Just curious, since nearly every professionally published book since
> > the mid-1900s has had one space after sentence ending punctuation, do
> > you find reading books difficult?
> I just picked up the closest book I had at hand.  It's "Computer
> Networks", by Andrew Tanenbaum & David Wetherall, 5th edition, published
> in 2012 by Pearson.. It has wider spacing between sentences than words.
> Second book I picked off my bookshelf is "Ethernet The Definitive Guide"
> by Charles Spurgeon, 1st edition, 2000, from O'Reilly.  It also has
> wider spacing between sentences.  That's 2 for 2 of the first 2 books I
> grabbed.

You and I obviously have different tastes in literature. But, no matter, 
I'll follow Tom's advice and let the matter go. I'm happy to follow the 
advice of the overwhelming majority of professional typographers. If you 
don't want to, you don't have to, and I'll respect that.

Virgil

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