Re: [MlMt] Any way to prevent auto-correcting two spaces after a period to one?

2015-06-07 Thread John Purnell
Steve Losh eloquently puts forward the case for 2 spaces: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/why-i-two-space/ On 2015-06-08, at 05:54 +0200, Ben Klebe wrote: No, he’s saying that when the practice began doesn’t matter because it’s not part of 21st century typography. Sincerely, Ben Klebe

Re: [MlMt] Any way to prevent auto-correcting two spaces after a period to one?

2015-06-07 Thread Gary Hull
On 8 Jun 2015, at 9:40, Eric A. Meyer wrote: On 7 Jun 2015, at 20:16, Gary Hull wrote: On 8 Jun 2015, at 2:44, Ben Klebe wrote: The autocorrect is system-wide in Cocoa text fields. To change it, go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Text and uncheck “Correct spelling automatically.” Stran

Re: [MlMt] Any way to prevent auto-correcting two spaces after a period to one?

2015-06-07 Thread Ben Klebe
No, he’s saying that when the practice began doesn’t matter because it’s not part of 21st century typography. Sincerely, Ben Klebe On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Eric A. Meyer wrote: > I'll offer my own but of insight: Butterick is right that it doesn't > matter. I just wish he and thos

Re: [MlMt] Any way to prevent auto-correcting two spaces after a period to one?

2015-06-07 Thread Eric A. Meyer
I'll offer my own but of insight: Butterick is right that it doesn't matter. I just wish he and those who follow his view would take that advice to heart, and stop demonstrating to all and sundry that it really does matter to them. On 7 Jun 2015, at 23:21, Ben Klebe wrote: I can only offer

Re: [MlMt] Any way to prevent auto-correcting two spaces after a period to one?

2015-06-07 Thread Eric A. Meyer
On 7 Jun 2015, at 23:11, Gary Hull wrote: At any rate, double spacer should know that publishers these days have regex routines that manuscripts get run through, fixing things like initial and trailing spaces and high-bit ASCII, and that /\w+/\w/ or the like is built into such routines. So goo

Re: [MlMt] Any way to prevent auto-correcting two spaces after a period to one?

2015-06-07 Thread Ben Klebe
I can only offer this shrewd bit of insight from Matthew Butterick’s excellent Practical Typography: http://practicaltypography.com/one-space-between-sentences.html "I know that many peo­ple were taught to put two spaces be­tween sen­tences. I was too. But these days, us­ing two spaces is an

[MlMt] SubjectCopying messages

2015-06-07 Thread Pascal Felber
Hi, I might be missing something obvious, but how can I copy a message to an IMAP mailbox (vs. just moving it)? I found the selector (copyToMailbox:) but it seems there is no default menu item nor documented shortcut. I'd like to avoid having to use the mouse and option-dragging. Thanks, Pa

Re: [MlMt] Any way to prevent auto-correcting two spaces after a period to one?

2015-06-07 Thread Gary Hull
On 8 Jun 2015, at 2:44, Ben Klebe wrote: The autocorrect is system-wide in Cocoa text fields. To change it, go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Text and uncheck “Correct spelling automatically.” Strangely though I can’t replicate this behavior and furthermore why would you want two spaces

Re: [MlMt] Any way to prevent auto-correcting two spaces after a period to one?

2015-06-07 Thread Eric A. Meyer
On 7 Jun 2015, at 20:16, Gary Hull wrote: On 8 Jun 2015, at 2:44, Ben Klebe wrote: The autocorrect is system-wide in Cocoa text fields. To change it, go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Text and uncheck “Correct spelling automatically.” Strangely though I can’t replicate this behavior an

Re: [MlMt] Any way to prevent auto-correcting two spaces after a period to one?

2015-06-07 Thread Thomas Floeren
> On 7 Jun 2015, at 20:02, Alan Goldsmith wrote: > > Yes, was composing in Markdown. I like two spaces after a period, though I > know it's not the standard anymore. I guess, what you effectively want is a wider space than normal. IMO typing two normal spaces is not the adequate method to a

Re: [MlMt] Any way to prevent auto-correcting two spaces after a period to one?

2015-06-07 Thread Alan Goldsmith
Yes, was composing in Markdown. I like two spaces after a period, though I know it's not the standard anymore. On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Ben Klebe wrote: > Oh I guess OP is not composing in plain text? My apologies. > > Sincerely, > > Ben Klebe > > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Billy

Re: [MlMt] Any way to prevent auto-correcting two spaces after a period to one?

2015-06-07 Thread Ben Klebe
Oh I guess OP is not composing in plain text? My apologies. Sincerely, Ben Klebe On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Billy Youdelman wrote: > Using the composer's plain text mode seems to be one way. As can be > seen here. Two spaces. > ビリー ヨーデルマん > +1 310 839 7673 > http://MIX.ORG/ >

Re: [MlMt] Any way to prevent auto-correcting two spaces after a period to one?

2015-06-07 Thread Billy Youdelman
Using the composer's plain text mode seems to be one way. As can be seen here. Two spaces. ビリー ヨーデルマん +1 310 839 7673 http://MIX.ORG/ ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate

Re: [MlMt] Any way to prevent auto-correcting two spaces after a period to one?

2015-06-07 Thread Ben Klebe
The autocorrect is system-wide in Cocoa text fields. To change it, go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Text and uncheck “Correct spelling automatically.” Strangely though I can’t replicate this behavior and furthermore why would you want two spaces after a period? Sincerely, Ben Klebe On

[MlMt] Any way to prevent auto-correcting two spaces after a period to one?

2015-06-07 Thread Alan Goldsmith
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