On , CE WOOD <[email protected]> wrote:
> That sounds like a good work-around. I will give it a try. And, like you, > I much prefer 2 spaces after periods and colons. Of course, I am only an > old retired English teacher. I will say that I do a weekly column for a > local newspaper and they require only 1 space after. Of course they are > placing the saving of space ahead of grammatical correctness. Jane > 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 > To: [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
