Hi :) One practical up-shot of this is that when i collect articles for my companies newsletter i; 1. Paste into Writer as "unformatted text and apply styles 2. Search&replace all ". " (single spaces) with ". " (double space) but that makes some into triple spaces! So, 3. Search&replace all ". " (triples) with ". " 4. Then look through for anything weird.
I don't have to worry about other ways of ending a sentence because we carefully avoid making our newsletter look remotely interesting enough to read. Certainly no double or triple exclamation marks and as few pictures as possible!! A bit like the leaflets made to attract people to LibreOffice. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Bruce Carlson <[email protected]> >To: LibreOffice <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013, 2:07 >Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting > > >An interesting observation Virgil. > >When I went to school, mind you it was several lifetimes ago and in the >backwoods of the Australian outback so it may not be too relevant to anywhere >else on the planet but, I was told to always leave a double space at the end >of every sentence. That was with hand writing, before typewriters were >invented, at least there were none within several hundred miles of where I >grew up. >These days with modern word processors I just don't bother to even try and >insert two spaces at the end of sentences but I suppose I should, it certainly >looks nicer and may even be proper. >It would be nice if modern word processors at least provided the option of a >setting to do this automatically. Perhaps it should be the default setting. > >(please note no double spaces used in this text) > >Cheers all, > >Bruce Carlson > >-----Original Message----- >From: Virgil Arrington [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013 10:29 AM >To: James Knott; LibreOffice >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting > >I got my information from Robert Bringhurst's book "The Elements of >Typographic Style." > >I have noticed that older books from the 19th century had wider spacing after >sentence ending punctuation. Newer books, say from the mid 20th century on, >seem to have narrower spacing between sentences. > >Virgil > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: James Knott >Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 10:22 AM >To: LibreOffice >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting > >Virgil Arrington wrote: >> The typographic standard is to only use one space between sentences >> with proportionally spaced fonts. > >In the old hand set type (which I have worked with) there were different width >spaces (en & em quads), depending on where they were used. >Typically, an en quad was used between words and an em quad between sentences. > The names refer to the width of upper case N and M characters. So, the space >between words was as wide as an N and between sentences, an M. There were >also wider ones, such as double M and triple M. Typesetting machines, such as >the Linotype also had provision for different width spaces. > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? >http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
