On 06.08.18 19:15, Tim Chase wrote: > I still use two spaces in my source material particularly because I > can `:set cpo+=J` and Vim will be smart enough to navigate by > sentence even if I have intermediate punctuation that might otherwise > be considered terminal. E.g. > > I saw Dr. Smith yesterday. She lives on Oak St. with her husband.
Ooh, that would be worth trying - if only I could train myself to insert two spaces when typing text. After 2^16 trips around our star, that would be serious finger reprogramming. ... > That said, I usually write in some form of markup (usually HTML but > sometimes Markdown or occasionally LaTeX) and then render them to > HTML or PDF output with whatever the renderer deems an appropriate > amount of inter-sentence spacing---an amount I don't really care > about as long as it looks reasonable. :-) I'll have to find time to dig up an introductory text on minimal LaTeX, sufficient to add bold / underlined larger-font headings to some Vim output, in a consumer-friendly font. When I use LibreOffice for that, I have to make subsequent edits in the GUI monstrosity or lose the formatting. :-( On 06.08.18 14:47, John Little wrote: > My understanding is that in print typesetting, more space was often > used after a sentence than between words (though it could get > complicated, depending on the font, the space needed for > justification, and the first letter of the following sentence). That is rather interesting. IIRC, not a few early printed books mimicked the oversized initial capital at the start of a page. That would need extra space. More generally, if sentence-start double spacing were not strictly adhered to after initial hand typesetting, the spare space could serve as a buffer to allow insertion of a missed character earlier in the line, without risk of wrapping several following lines in a paragraph. (Laborious by hand.) Erik -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
