At 21:37 30/04/2009 -0700, Brewster Gillett wrote:
Has anyone seen this behavior? Running 2.0 under FC2. (I know, I'm
long overdue for an upgrade....)
Space bar is on strike. In both Calc and Writer, it will give me one
space, and one only, then no response from the space bar to
subsequent requests. Am I caught in some kind of Template Warp?
Should I ask Scotty to beam me up?
It is *not* the keyboard - the space bar performs normally in every
other application it's used in.
What could cause such a thing?
What could cause such a thing is that you've discovered the office
suite of the future! Multiple spaces are a typewriter artifice, of
course, and totally out of place in a word processor, where
formatting should be achieved with tabs, margins, table cells,
justification, paragraph and character spacing, and so on. Any
number of consecutive presses of the space bar should indicate a word
break and nothing more. The amount of space this creates - if any -
should depend on the context. Allowing multiple spaces is a sop to
the typewriter brigade.
Oh, and if you really want to return to the past, just go to Tools |
AutoCorrect... | Options and remove the tick from "Ignore double spaces".
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker (donning his flame-proof clothing)
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