On 16 August 2013 11:46, Jay Lozier <[email protected]> wrote: > I learned to type in the US and the double spacing was taught back in the > dark ages.
Same here (dark ages = 1960s). When I became aware of the 'rule' that double spacing at the end of a sentence was for typewriters, but not for proportional fonts, I taught myself to change. It took some effort, but now I do it without thinking. Looking at a professionally typeset book, it appears (are my old eyes deceiving me?) the space between sentences is a wee bit wider than other spaces. If this is the case, it would be nice if word processors would have a setting which would do this automatically. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping_of_Unicode_characters#Spaces lists twelve (12) different Unicode spaces, one of which is called a punctuation space. -- T. R. Valentine Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care. 'When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.' -- Erasmus -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
