28-Mar-07 18:33:01 (UTC +1100) - *Brian Barker* posted the following:
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And here's a prediction. You know how setting text as bold or italic a
second time doesn't make it doubly bold or doubly italic, but just leaves
it as it was? Well, I suggest that at some point in the future word
processors will treat space and Enter the same way: any number of spaces
between words will automatically be condensed to one, and any number of
consecutive Enters will be condensed to a single paragraph break. We'll
be forced to use the application properly, not as a glorified typewriter.
And this behaviour of Writer with spaces is the (welcome) first step in
that direction.
And I can't wait for this to happen.
I'm only a sporadic creator of documents, and MS Word was de riguer in the
company I used to work for. I was never happy with it's layout approach.
Now I'm freelancing, and am using StarOffice Writer, and the Styles
methodology is a lot more intuitive than that of MS Word, in my opinion,
and my documents are so much easier to create and manage.
Having done some work in page layout using Adobe's InDesign, the paradigm
of flowed text, frames, etc is much easier to comprehend.
The only problem I having goes back to the seventies, when I was taught to
type at high schools, and the "two spaces after a full stop" rule was
king. I still occasionally fall into this habit, particularly when I have
a large amount of text to enter, and am typing at full speed.
--
Klaas Visser (Sydney, Australia)
"Always and never are two words you
should always remember never to use."
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