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

On 8/19/13 7:00 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> On 08/19/2013 08:44 AM, Denis J Navas wrote:
> > LaTeX which is known as a standard with typography of technical and
> > mathematical documents, use a wider space after the end of sentence
> > point, than the space between words.  Even more, the inter word space
> > is dependent of the main font size (the optical size) and is stretchable.
> >
> > That's why I don't accept the usual convention that don't use double
> > space after the end of sentence point, because LibreOffice does not
> > have way to insert end of sentence spaces.
>
> While that is the default LaTeX setting, every time I use LaTeX, I
> insert the \frenchspacing command in my preamble, so that LaTeX will
> conform to the current generally accepted standard of using only a
> single word space after sentences.
>
> While LaTeX produces beautiful results, it is a computing tool, not a
> typographic standard. The creator of the default behavior has, in fact,
> *deviated* from the "standard of typography" by ignoring the current
> standard of using only one word space after sentence ending punctuation.
>
> I'm not saying everybody has to conform to the standard, but it would be
> somewhat naive to pretend that the standard doesn't exist.
>
> I know I said I would let it go, but I just couldn't resist. :)

Hi, Vigil,

So, if I read your message correctly, there is no official "body" that 
sets typographic standards, only general conventions used by most, but 
may not be the best for end user/reader.  Would that be correct?


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Ken

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