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[jeh25]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 Leave this to the professionals. Or Microsoft Word. [/q]

Baah. Word can't even get the right the number of spaces after a period.

[billhoward]

[Q]jeh25 Wrote:

 [Q2]billhoward Wrote:

 Leave this to the professionals. Or Microsoft Word. [/Q]
Baah. Word can't even get the right the number of spaces after a period. [/q]

What's right depends on the usage. Spacing after a period, that Word can get "right" because for typography and typesetting the correct number of spaces is one. That is the considered opinion of cunning linguists and typographers. In the olden days of fixed-pitch typewriters it was custom to have two spaces. Every little bit helped when you were trying to stretch a 2-1/2 page essay into the required three pages.

If one persists in wanting two spaces after a period in a proportional-space-font document, you can make that happen by turning off auto-correct.

What Word gets most horribly wrong is many of the automatic open and close quotes. Every time you see a billboard or ad or just a letter with the wrong single quote in front of Class of '99, that most likely would be Word at your service.

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

 [Q2]jeh25 Wrote:

Baah. Word can't even get the right the number of spaces after a period. [/Q]
What's right depends on the usage. Spacing after a period, that Word can get "right" because for typography and typesetting the correct number of spaces is one. That is the considered opinion of cunning linguists and typographers. In the olden days of fixed-pitch typewriters it was custom to have two spaces. Every little bit helped when you were trying to stretch a 2-1/2 page essay into the required three pages.[/q]

I thought the standard was a space and a half.  That's what TeX does unless you specifically tell it to use a single space.  (Which is why I have to type my name as John T.~Whelan in TeX documents.)