Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

On 09/06/2013 05:20 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
> On 9/5/13 9:23 AM, T. R. Valentine wrote:
> > As a follow-up to our earlier discussion of one versus two spaces
> > following a full point/full stop/period, I offer the following passage
> > from /About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography/ by David Jury
> > (typos mine):
>
> <snip>
>
> <sigh>  With the different ways people reply to this group, this 
> discussion is all over the place when using gmane and a newsreader.   :-(
>
> I think I've got all of these messages read, and it seems to me 
> everyone has overlooked one thing, the font itself.  What did the 
> designer do with the individual characters and punctuation marks and 
> whatever else may be in the font regarding white space in the glyph 
> itself?
>
> It seems logical to me that's going to make a difference in whether 
> the spacing after a period, for example, should be 1, 1.5, or 2 
> spaces.  And maybe, you'll just have to do some manual kerning.
>
> Or...  Am I missing something?
Ken,

I don't think you're missing anything, but most of us aren't using LO to 
prepare the *final* version of a document for  professional publication 
(i.e., books, magazines, etc.). I would truly hope that a publishing 
house would do more than just take a word processing document and print 
it out in book format. (In fact, many professional writers use nothing 
more than Notepad, saying their publishers strip all user-inserted 
formatting anyway). So, if there's any manual kerning to be done, I 
would expect that to be done on a level far above LO.

When I argue for one space instead of two, I'm thinking in terms of 
business letters, memos, legal briefs (I'm a lawyer) or scholastic 
papers (I also teach at our local university). These are the types of 
documents I prepare with LO, and when preparing them, I want to follow 
professional typographic standards as much as I can. Ergo, one space. 
But, manual kerning goes beyond what I think should be expected of 
anyone on this level of document preparation.

Virgil

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