Reducing space after fullstops?
LyX tends to add spaces after fullstops. It looks a bit excessive sometimes. How do I reduce/avoid this pls? FN -- P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter: @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha Goa,1556 Shared Content at archive.org https://archive.org/details/goa1556
Re: Reducing space after fullstops?
Am Montag 10 August 2015, 16:20:56 schrieb Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا: LyX tends to add spaces after fullstops. It looks a bit excessive sometimes. How do I reduce/avoid this pls? FN This is the so called French spacing which is common in some languages. Look here how to switch it off globally or for specific languages: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/210254/babels-selectlanguage-resets-frenchspacing Jürgen
Re: Reducing space after fullstops?
On Aug 10, 2015, at 7:14 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Montag 10 August 2015, 16:20:56 schrieb Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا: LyX tends to add spaces after fullstops. It looks a bit excessive sometimes. How do I reduce/avoid this pls? FN This is the so called French spacing which is common in some languages. Look here how to switch it off globally or for specific languages: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/210254/babels-selectlanguage-resets-frenchspacing Jürgen See this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing for the interesting history of spacing between sentences. One snippet: With the advent of the typewriter in the late 19th century, French and English typists adopted approximations of standard spacing practices to fit the limitations of the typewriter itself. French typists used a single space between sentences, consistent with the typeset French spacing technique, whereas English typists used a double space. • French spacing inserted spaces around most punctuation marks, but single-spaced after sentences, colons, and semicolons.[3] • English spacing removed spaces around most punctuation marks, but double-spaced after sentences, colons, and semicolons.[4] These approximations were taught and used as the standard typing techniques in French and English-speaking countries.[5] For example, T. S. Eliot typed rather than wrote the manuscript for his classic The Waste Land between 1920 and 1922, and used only English spacing throughout: double-spaced sentences.[6] Historically, French spacing referred to single-spacing between sentences. In calling the command that forces this single-spacing \frenchspacing, Knuth was following this historical terminology. On this topic, the typographer's bible, The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst, has this to say: 2.1.4 Use a single word space between sentences. In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography and type design, many compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of twentieth-century typists were then taught to do the same, by hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint Victorian habit. As a general rule, no more than a single space is required after a period, a colon or any other mark of punctuation. Larger spaces (e.g., en spaces) are themselves punctuation. The rule is usually altered, however, when setting classical Latin and Greek, romanized Sanskrit, phonetics or other kinds of texts in which sentences begin with lowercase letters. In the absences of a capital, a full en space (M/2) between sentences will generally be welcome. Bruce
Reducing space after fullstops?
LyX tends to add spaces after fullstops. It looks a bit excessive sometimes. How do I reduce/avoid this pls? FN -- P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter: @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha Goa,1556 Shared Content at archive.org https://archive.org/details/goa1556
Re: Reducing space after fullstops?
Am Montag 10 August 2015, 16:20:56 schrieb Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا: > LyX tends to add spaces after fullstops. It looks a bit excessive > sometimes. How do I reduce/avoid this pls? FN This is the so called "French spacing" which is common in some languages. Look here how to switch it off globally or for specific languages: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/210254/babels-selectlanguage-resets-frenchspacing Jürgen
Re: Reducing space after fullstops?
On Aug 10, 2015, at 7:14 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Montag 10 August 2015, 16:20:56 schrieb Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक > नोरोन्या > *فريدريك نورونيا: >> LyX tends to add spaces after fullstops. It looks a bit excessive >> sometimes. How do I reduce/avoid this pls? FN > > This is the so called "French spacing" which is common in some languages. > Look > here how to switch it off globally or for specific languages: > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/210254/babels-selectlanguage-resets-frenchspacing > > Jürgen See this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing for the interesting history of spacing between sentences. One snippet: With the advent of the typewriter in the late 19th century, French and English typists adopted approximations of standard spacing practices to fit the limitations of the typewriter itself. French typists used a single space between sentences, consistent with the typeset French spacing technique, whereas English typists used a double space. • French spacing inserted spaces around most punctuation marks, but single-spaced after sentences, colons, and semicolons.[3] • English spacing removed spaces around most punctuation marks, but double-spaced after sentences, colons, and semicolons.[4] These approximations were taught and used as the standard typing techniques in French and English-speaking countries.[5] For example, T. S. Eliot typed rather than wrote the manuscript for his classic The Waste Land between 1920 and 1922, and used only English spacing throughout: double-spaced sentences.[6] Historically, "French spacing" referred to single-spacing between sentences. In calling the command that forces this single-spacing \frenchspacing, Knuth was following this historical terminology. On this topic, the typographer's bible, The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst, has this to say: 2.1.4 Use a single word space between sentences. In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography and type design, many compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of twentieth-century typists were then taught to do the same, by hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint Victorian habit. As a general rule, no more than a single space is required after a period, a colon or any other mark of punctuation. Larger spaces (e.g., en spaces) are themselves punctuation. The rule is usually altered, however, when setting classical Latin and Greek, romanized Sanskrit, phonetics or other kinds of texts in which sentences begin with lowercase letters. In the absences of a capital, a full en space (M/2) between sentences will generally be welcome. Bruce
