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Sent: Sat, 5 December, 2009 2:52:14 PM
Subject: Re: [users] When I Copy Text into OOo, Only One Space Between Sentence
End and Beginning of Next sentence
On 12/5/2009, James Knott (james.kn
On 12/5/2009, James Knott (james.kn...@rogers.com) wrote:
I've always been in the habit of adding an extra space between
sentences. It simply looks better,
You do realize that what looks better to you doesn't necessarily look
better to me (or anyone else)?
I hate extra spaces... :)
Dear Users,
When I copy text into OOo, I have encountered this problem, not always,
but many times.
*When I Copy Text into OOo, only one space will be between each sentence
end, and the beginning of the next sentence*
This time I am trying to help a friend convert 50 books he wrote in .doc
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:59:59 -0600
Came this utterance formulated by John Gilchrist to my mailbox:
*How can I automatically place two spaces between the period at the
end of a sentence, and the begining of the next sentence.*
Firstly - two spaces at the end of each sentence is no longer a
Sorry to barge in here, but in normal usage you are right, Michael, that two
spaces after a full stop and colon are no longer required.
However, I have been told that manuscripts intended for printing should still
have two spaces after full stop and colon, to make it easier for the typesetter
As a non English speaking person that's very interesting. In Swedish
there has never been an extra space required and I started to learn
English at school in 1975, and nobody ever mentioned an extra space.
So exactly when did this change from being required to NOT being
required?
On the other
Using two spaces to separate sentences was the way I learned to type in
my high school typing class taught in 1956. The use of a space before a
question mark or exclamation mark is not normative. I use it sometimes
to make it distinct from a letter l which looks very similar on my
computer
Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
As a non English speaking person that's very interesting. In Swedish
there has never been an extra space required and I started to learn
English at school in 1975, and nobody ever mentioned an extra space.
So exactly when did this change from being required to NOT being
Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
As a non English speaking person that's very interesting. In Swedish
there has never been an extra space required and I started to learn
English at school in 1975, and nobody ever mentioned an extra space.
So exactly when did this change from being required to NOT being
Ooooppps. Forgot the URL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_type
Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
As a non English speaking person that's very interesting. In Swedish
there has never been an extra space required and I started to learn
English at school in 1975, and nobody ever mentioned an extra
JOE Conner wrote:
I have no explanation for a question mark having a preceding space and
I consider it just plain wrong.
I have never heard of it either.
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On Dec 5, 2009, at 23:16 , Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
As a non English speaking person that's very interesting. In Swedish
there has never been an extra space required
Tell me about it! Living in Sweden myself, with a Swedish wife who was trained
as a secretary, we've had our fights over my
2009/12/5 Clayton ccorn...@openoffice.org:
Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
As a non English speaking person that's very interesting. In Swedish
there has never been an extra space required and I started to learn
English at school in 1975, and nobody ever mentioned an extra space.
So exactly when did
Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
As a non English speaking person that's very interesting. In Swedish
there has never been an extra space required and I started to learn
English at school in 1975, and nobody ever mentioned an extra space.
So exactly when did this change from being required to NOT being
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:49:55 -0500
Came this utterance formulated by James Knott to my mailbox:
Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
As a non English speaking person that's very interesting. In Swedish
there has never been an extra space required and I started to learn
English at school in 1975, and
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:34:57 -0800
Came this utterance formulated by JOE Conner to my mailbox:
Using two spaces to separate sentences was the way I learned to type
in my high school typing class taught in 1956.
Agreed, this was the method as taught back then, in fact i know of many
typists
James Knott wrote:
BTW, many years ago, I used to do some hand set typesetting, picking
letters out of a large tray or case as shown in this article (near
the bottom). A printing shop would have a cabinet containing several
cases and a sloped surface on the top where the composition was done.
James Wilde wrote:
In other words, I'm a real dinosaur
I suppose you also have huge illuminated first capital letter at the
beginning of a paragraph. ;-)
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PatrickG wrote:
James Knott wrote:
BTW, many years ago, I used to do some hand set typesetting, picking
letters out of a large tray or case as shown in this article (near
the bottom). A printing shop would have a cabinet containing several
cases and a sloped surface on the top where the
In a message dated 2009.12.05 06:05 -0500, Michael Adams wrote:
... [discussion of OP's problem, plus this question]:
NOTE to all - If copy and paste does strip extra white spaces, is this
behaviour expected or counterable?
If Copy__Paste strips spaces, that is (a) unexpected [at least
Good grief, no, not for each paragraph. Only for the first letter in a
chapter. :)
On Dec 6, 2009, at 03:15 , James Knott wrote:
James Wilde wrote:
In other words, I'm a real dinosaur
I suppose you also have huge illuminated first capital letter at the
beginning of a paragraph. ;-)
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