I have been a typographer for 40 years and the only people I ever met who used double spaces between words or after colons were badly trained copy typists. And it has, of course, nothing at all to do with grammar, but stylistic conventions, for better or worse.
Wm Voss On 12-Jun-11 5:46 PM, Jackie King wrote: > Actually most typographers dropped the two spaces after a sentence > once computers came into vogue for printing use - and that is because > of the proportional spacing most programs use. > > Try telling a typography class now that you need two spaces after a > sentence and I think you might be surprised at the reaction you would > get. The two space convention was only used once typewriters came > to the fore - and its been dropped by most now that typewriters are > not used as much. > > jk > > On 6/12/2011 7:34 PM, CE WOOD wrote: >> Actually, if you produce an html, you can copy, import into WORD, and >> have much better results than using RTF. >>  >> The major problems with this, especially if you are a pedant: >>  >> Some major problems, some of which are because of the grammatically >> ignorant Legacy programmers (why can't they use correct grammar?): >>  >> Sentences are separated by only one space, rather than the >> grammatically correct two spaces. >> Colons are followed by only one space, rather than the grammatically >> correct two spaces. >> Books must be double bracket coded to show correctly as underlined. >> Legacy coding for italicizing does not work. >>  >> There are others, too, but those are the few that come to mind. >>  >> Once in WORD, Find and Replace make many corrections easy, and those >> corrections are MUCH easier when pasted from the html than from RTF! >>  >>  >> CE >>  >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* James Cook <mailto:[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Sunday, June 12, 2011 12:52 PM >> *Subject:* Re: Re: [LegacyUG] 49/up0 >> >> ....I know there are some who edit and update >> the generated reports quite extensively, and RTF is the only option >> for that. >> Hope that helps. >> >> >> >> Legacy User Group guidelines: >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >> Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >> Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) >> and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). >> To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
