Re: [libreoffice-users] spacing after punctuation

On 09/05/2013 07:10 PM, Dave Liesse wrote:
> Virgil, I'll have to disagree with your last sentence.  It's quite 
> obvious to me when there are two spaces after a sentence-ending period 
> rather than just one, even with proportional fonts (allowing for the 
> possibility that there's a font somewhere with a wider space than the 
> others).  I prefer the double space, myself.
>
> Dave

I fully agree that it is "quite obvious" when two spaces are used. 
Having read professionally published books with only one space for over 
50 years, when I find the rare document with two spaces, the extra space 
jumps off the page. I find it quite distracting to the flow of my reading.

I had never heard of the argument used by Jury that periods and commas 
inherently have extra white space (the space above the punctuation 
mark), which gives the illusion of a 50% wider horizontal space even 
when only one word space is used. I find it intriguing, and it means 
that when one uses two spaces, s/he actually creates an illusion of 
white space 2.5 times wider than a single word space. A veritable 
typographic Grand Canyon.

Perhaps I should have said that I *hoped* that the inherent extra white 
space would satisfy the two-space folks. I should have known better. :)

Virgil



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