2009/9/23 John Kaufmann <[email protected]> > 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 > > I think the nearest Writer gets to what you want is via its Justified format which adjusts the spacing between words and sentences so as to give straight margins on left and right sides. You can adjust the width of each margin independently and so, to some extent at least, influence the spacing between words. You can't adjust the "space distribution" algorithm - or perhaps you could via an extension.
It's not entirely clear to me what you want to be able to do. I understand that it would be nice to be able to say "two spaces between sentences" but beyond that ??? Perhaps you could give some examples. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
