bg wrote:
At 21:37 30/04/2009 -0700, Brewster Gillett wrote:
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?
Brian Barker wrote:
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)
Brewster replies:
Good one! You got me pegged, as a member of the typewriter brigade.
I will only observe that there is no way this typewriter brigadier
will ever fully adapt to ceding control to that extent to the software
until his word processor has the most useful feature
of the old Word Perfect; "REVEAL CODES". I really despise flying blind,
and trusting to some programmer's concept of how word
processing should work. Give me "REVEAL CODES" and I will eventually
adapt, yea, even unto (gasp!) the dreaded templates - because
a properly implemented "REVEAL CODES" provides us with a safety net,
and abolishes guesswork almost entirely.
Brewster
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