Hi Dave, On Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at 08:24:38 [GMT -0800], you wrote: DC> My own preference is NOT to compress space. People vary in how they DC> do spacing -- espcially end-of-sentence spacing. Users do, DC> sometimes, accidentally add spaces they do not want, but it is a DC> rather uncommon error.
DC> So, the change to the algorithm would simply be to preserve all DC> spacing. Sorry, but -- although this may be possible -- it would really lead to some weird results. Just consider the following 2 paragraphs and tell me (roughly) an algorithm to reformat them, preserving the spacing: This is a rather long and pretty senseless sentence just to get a line longer than 80 characters. And this is a shorter sentence. Now we have a second paragraph in a message about the volcanic activity at Mount St. Helens, which goes a lot more into detail than this one. :-) The problem is that a programme can't distinguish between the different kinds of periods used in texts. That is why any algorithm can only insert *one* word seperator after every period it encounters, because it doesn't know anything about how the period is used there. -- Regards, Lars The Bat! 1.63 Beta/2 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
