On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, Bruce Carlson wrote:
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
this whole discussion rather puzzles me. I'm out of it because I've
never heard of a rule requiring double spaces between sentences (born
and raised in the US).
esthetically double space insertion annoys me when I have to edit
texts but otherwise I don't notice so double spaces neither facilitate
nor inhibit reading as far as I am concerned.
but not to just prattle on about myself, I have pulled three texts
from a shelf, two are Oxford University and one is Johns Hopkins
University. no double spaces that I can discern. oh, here's one from
MIT Press; no double spaces. these are somewhat recent; here's an
older volume from Stanford University (1992), again, no double
spacing.
I gather from Brian Barker's (and others') posts that this has
something to do with typewriters - is this a rule one learns by taking
typewriter classes? (learned on a typewriter but can't remember if I
double-spaced or not.) is it a rule applied to some special area of
literature or publication?
F.
-----Original Message-----
From: Virgil Arrington [mailto:cuyfa...@hotmail.com]
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.
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