Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting

On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, James Knott wrote:

> Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > Just curious, since nearly every professionally published book since
> > the mid-1900s has had one space after sentence ending punctuation, do
> > you find reading books difficult?
>
> I just picked up the closest book I had at hand.  It's "Computer
> Networks", by Andrew Tanenbaum & David Wetherall, 5th edition, published
> in 2012 by Pearson.. It has wider spacing between sentences than words.
> Second book I picked off my bookshelf is "Ethernet The Definitive Guide"
> by Charles Spurgeon, 1st edition, 2000, from O'Reilly.  It also has
> wider spacing between sentences.  That's 2 for 2 of the first 2 books I
> grabbed.

the academic presses I mentioned before were not 'technical' titles so 
I looked about and came up with:

_A Practical Guide to Linux_, Prentice-Hall: single-spaced.
_Learning the Bash Shell_, O'Reilly: double-spaced?

it's a bit hard to tell with the O'Reilly; I need to find a tiny 
ruler. some spacing between words look larger than some spacing 
between sentences.

guess it's different strokes for different presses.

hmm..., another O'Reilly text seems to have something short of double 
and longer than single. God, it's hard to discern the difference! but 
perhaps some here are right that these subliminal differences make a 
difference for ease of reading.

anyway, I agree with Tom we shouldn't disagree about agreeing to 
disagree.

F.

--
Felmon Davis

By the yard, life is hard.
By the inch, it's a cinch.

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