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Hi :)
One practical up-shot of this is that when i collect articles for my companies newsletter i;
1.  Paste into Writer as "unformatted text and apply styles
2.  Search&replace all ". " (single spaces) with ".  " (double space) but that makes some into 
triple spaces!  So,  
3.  Search&replace all ".   " (triples) with ".  "
4.  Then look through for anything weird.  

I don't have to worry about other ways of ending a sentence because we carefully avoid making our 
newsletter look remotely interesting enough to read.  Certainly no double or triple exclamation 
marks and as few pictures as possible!!  A bit like the leaflets made to attract people to 
LibreOffice.  
Regards from 
Tom :)  





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From: Bruce Carlson <Bruce.Carlson@nepean.com>
To: LibreOffice <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013, 2:07
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting


An interesting observation Virgil.

When I went to school, mind you it was several lifetimes ago and in the backwoods of the 
Australian outback so it may not be too relevant to anywhere else on the planet but, I was told to 
always leave a double space at the end of every sentence. That was with hand writing, before 
typewriters were invented, at least there were none within several hundred miles of where I grew 
up.
These days with modern word processors I just don't bother to even try and insert two spaces at 
the end of sentences but I suppose I should, it certainly looks nicer and may even be proper.
It would be nice if modern word processors at least provided the option of a setting to do this 
automatically. Perhaps it should be the default setting.

(please note no double spaces used in this text)

Cheers all, 

Bruce Carlson

-----Original Message-----
From: Virgil Arrington [mailto:cuyfalls@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013 10:29 AM
To: James Knott; LibreOffice
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting

I got my information from Robert Bringhurst's book "The Elements of Typographic Style."

I have noticed that older books from the 19th century had wider spacing after sentence ending 
punctuation. Newer books, say from the mid 20th century on, seem to have narrower spacing between 
sentences.

Virgil



-----Original Message-----
From: James Knott
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 10:22 AM
To: LibreOffice
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting

Virgil Arrington wrote:
The typographic standard is to only use one space between sentences 
with proportionally spaced fonts.

In the old hand set type (which I have worked with) there were different width spaces (en & em 
quads), depending on where they were used.
Typically, an en quad was used between words and an em quad between sentences.  The names refer to 
the width of upper case N and M characters.  So, the space between words was as wide as an N and 
between sentences, an M.  There were also wider ones, such as double M and triple M.  Typesetting 
machines, such as the Linotype also had provision for different width spaces.




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