A couple weeks ago, in a thread begun by someone else ("How do you turn a single spaced Doc into double-spaced?"), an inapt answer to the OP's question - suggesting search-and-replace to turn all single spaces into double spaces - prompted me to ask about whether OO had no more elegant handling of word spacing. The replies misconstrued the question (which simply means that I asked it poorly), and there have been no further posts on that thread. Meanwhile I have learned more about the OO paradigm, so maybe I resurrect the question, in its own thread, with more clarity:

The OO paradigm is built on document *structure*. As opposed to list processing or stream-oriented word processing, OO recognizes, and tries to encapsulate, structural entities. With respect to text, those entities seem to be characters, lines, paragraphs, and OO provides formatting capabilities to independently adjust spacing of each of those entities. However, AFAICS there is no comparable treatment for words or sentences - no recognition of words or sentences as structural elements, and no independent spacing adjustments between words or between sentences. Is that correct?

John


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