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

In this thread, and as Miss Keating has corrected some reference of 
actual printing of the hard copy type, we are forgetting punctuation and 
a language layout in how it was and is handwritten, how it has been 
adapted for typesetting  / letterpress printing, and hey presto how we 
are all communicating to each other right now, digitally.

Everyone is talking about and applying laws that are about sensible 
grammar, correctly and incorrectly, and which to a degree have to be 
applied to the digital word. But raw computer code gives no hoot for 
spacing, it is actually a hindrance and adds drag to the speed of 
processing. Spacing, punctuation etc. are for the human eye, as someone 
has posted, in creating fluid reading and interpretation, generally 
called the white space of a document. Today many programmers, and I on a 
very small scale, as I am not an involved programmer, can introduce 
conditions in code to strip or add spaces, which is a piece of code by 
the way, computers do not know what is a white space or blank, it's 
treated as a character.

So we need to get around what we are referring to when it comes to 
digital text or the written / printed word.

Andrew Brown

On 15/08/2013 06:25 PM, Miss Keating wrote:
> I wouldn't have thought to introduce the topic of letterpress printing 
> here, but since James Knott has, replete with monstrous errors, 
> correction is in order.
>
> No letterpress compositor would employ an en quad as an interword 
> space, except possibly when justifying.
>
> A standard job case contains, along with the various quads, typemetal 
> spaces in 3 sizes: 3-to-the-em, 4-to-the-em,
> and 5-to-the-em. There are also "thin" spaces, not proportional to the 
> font size: "brass" at 1 point, "copper" at 1/2 point.
>
> These spacings are often written as 3/em, &c., but are pronounced as 
> fully written out, to avoid confusion with the 3em and suchlike quads.
>
> A 3-to-the-emis the absolute standard interword space, which is why 
> they are located in the large and central compartment as shown here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Job_Case 
> <cid:part1.03010301.04010302@comcast.net>. (You have to scroll down a 
> bit to see the clear diagram provided.)
>
> As to intersentence spacing, the battle rages on, as we have seen in 
> this forum. Personally, I use an em quad with handset type. More 
> arcana can be found at:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing 
> <cid:part2.00090403.02050803@comcast.net>.
>
> trj


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