Unfortunately, I have to provide edits before peer reviews in *.DOC
format for the several authors, but I do most of the editing with OOo
(either using *.ODT or *.DOC files) on my end. Some poor authors may
insert, say, twenty or more such spaces for one reason or another, and
when using OOo, these spaces will not show up in either file format
using OOo if these spaces carry over until the following line.
So when reviewing this *.DOC file again in MS Word, those twenty or so
consecutive spaces are there. Likewise, if there are only two spaces but
if located at the end of the line. It's just a minor pain in the ass,
though.
Gary
Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:
Hi Gary,
Am Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:16:18 +0100 hat Gary Schnabl
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:
I would prefer not having all such double spaces automatically
deleted while editing just in case there are double spaces which
should stay for any reason....
Most of the writers whom I commercially edit were ordered in their
requirements (contract provisions) not to incorporate any such
archaic writing practices, such as inserting double spaces between
sentences, etc. Hopefully, these would be few in number.
I have been translating and editing texts for 10 years now and I
cannot recall a single document where double spaces had any sensible
function ;)
Rather would I blame MS for making such a weird thing possible instead
of giving at least the choice to avoid it, like OOo does.
Regards,
Wolfgang
