On Dec 5, 2009, at 23:16 , Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > As a non English speaking person that's very interesting. In Swedish > there has never been an extra space required
Tell me about it! Living in Sweden myself, with a Swedish wife who was trained as a secretary, we've had our fights over my insistence on two spaces and hers on one! :( I guess there's a lot of mythology in all this, and in these days when writers send in a pdf or Word file, there's probably no need for the typesetter to get involved. I suppose the requirement turned into a non-requirement sometime after 1982, when the IBM PC came out, or rather when Arial became the default typeface, and people just didn't bother any more. But it did all make sense in the days of typewriters and fixed fonts, and like Clayton, even my emails have two spaces, although I don't - yet - use courier 12 point in emails on my new Mac! But my OOo has courier 12 pt as the default typeface, and a 5-character indent on the first line of a paragraph. In other words, I'm a real dinosaur, although I do have a template without the indent. //James --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
