Slick idea Martin! Shari
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Martin Groenescheij < [email protected]> wrote: > First the good news in OpenOffice you can use many different spaces by > Inserting Special Characters for example U+2004 (scroll 4/5 down to the > bottom) is probably what the user wants. > > The bad news is that I couldn't get AutoCorrect to accept this, but Find > and Replace works fine. > > In the professional printing industry they use _en_ and _em_ spaces see > below: > > * An em space is the same width as the point size of the font you use. > For example, if you use a 10-point font, an em space is 10 points wide. > * An en space is half the width of an em space. > * A numeric space is the same width as the font's zero (0) character. > All digits are typically the same width. This space is useful for > aligning numbers in a column without using tabs. > * A thin space is one-twelfth the width of an em space. A thin space > is often used when a very small space is needed to separate two > characters--for example, between a number and the unit of measure > that follows it, or between characters that appear too close > together--for example, /). > * A nonbreaking space is the same width as the default space width for > the font. > > Apart from this I found the following spaces in the Windows Character Map: > > * en Quad U+2000 > * em Quad U+2001 > * en Space U+2002 > * em Space U+2003 > * Three-Per-Em Space U+2004 > * Four-Per-EM Space U+2005 > * Six-Per-Em Space U+2006 > * etc > > First the good news in OpenOffice you can use most of these spaces by > Inserting Special Characters for example U+2004 is probably what the user > wants. > > The bad news is that I couldn't get AutoCorrect to accept this, but Find > and Replace works fine. > > > > On 28-3-2014 11:06, Shari wrote: > >> You can edit spacing between letters (kerning) but I've never seen the >> ability to edit spacing between words with either OpenOffice or the other >> Word document program. Nor could I find anything when I searched. >> >> Is this something you've ever done in another program? If you have what >> program, and how was it accomplished? >> Understanding that may help with this. >> >> Shari >> >> On 3/27/2014 10:37 AM, ?????? ????????? wrote: [snipped] >> >> My question is: >>> Is there an option for automatic arrangement of the words of the >>> normal >>> distance of each other? That's the last consultation. >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> >
