Well, I guess you too are an a-typical reader ;-)
From: Dave Liesse <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] spacing after punctuation To: [email protected] Virgil, I'll have to disagree with your last sentence. It's quite obvious to me when there are two spaces after a sentence-ending period rather than just one, even with proportional fonts (allowing for the possibility that there's a font somewhere with a wider space than the others). I prefer the double space, myself. Dave On 9/5/2013 15:45, Virgil Arrington wrote: Anne, > > Don't misunderstand me. I much prefer a single space after sentence ending > punctuation for reasons I have written many times before. I was just > surprised that Jury advocated going further and using an even narrower > space. I consider that a little over the top, even for an obsessive > typophile like me. I doubt that any such narrowing would even be noticeable > by the typical reader. And the optical illusion of a wider space that Jury > notes is caused by the inherent space included with periods and commas > should satisfy the two space folks. > > Virgil -- 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
