In a message dated 2009.09.25 05:34 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote:
... 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?
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 ...
As I understand it, the "space distribution" algorithm is a function of
the font design, adjusted by Writer's character spacing function;
correct? But Writer has no adjustment for word spacing (in which the
only character width to be adjusted is the space character) or sentence
spacing (in which the space between sentence is adjusted). "Justified"
alignment is not the same as word and sentence spacing, but is of course
affected by word spacing.
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.
That is, in fact, the example of sentence spacing: the common problem of
how to highlight sentence limits to the eye, wherein the "typewriter"
solution was "two spaces between sentences" - a practice deprecated in
modern use but for which some word processors still do not provide an
alternative.
Word spacing addresses different issues: Perhaps to the author, or to
the particular purpose, a font's default spacing seems to provide
inadequate (or excessive) space between words. This is commonly
encountered in, for example, headings, where one might like to add
slightly more spacing between words.
John
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