Re: One or two spaces
- From: "Dave Durber" <d.durber@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:32:14 -0400
As an Optacon user, (Remember that useful gadget), to read books, I notice that
the amount of space between sentences still seems to be the equivalent of two
spaces.
There is a feature in Word that will create the equivalent amount of space
between sentences as if you had pressed the SPACE BAR twice.
You can have word do the same thing between paragraphs but with the equivalent
amount of space between paragraphs as if you had pressed the ENTER key twice.
I have not used these functions personally, this is because I have no trust in
a Microsoft product to do always what it claims to do. Oh, dear me, untrusting
cynic that I am.
So, being as I am becoming an old fuddy duddy,, I will go on tapping the SPACE
BAR twice between sentences and tapping the ENTER key twice to put a blank line
to insert a blank line between paragraphs and before and after headings.
HTH
Sincerely:
Dave Durber
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From: CrisMunoz54
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 5:36 PM
Subject: RE: One or two spaces
Two spaces are from the days of the typewriter. Go one space. It'll look
better.
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Adrian Spratt
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:33 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: One or two spaces
Hi, John. Just to save anyone a duplication of effort, this Wikipedia link is
to the same article as the one given to us by G.W. Cox.
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
john R. Vaughn
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 4:57 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: One or two spaces
Adrian and list, interesting issue of whether to single or double space after
the terminal punctuation for a sentence and the beginning of the next sentence.
Believe it or not, the link below is from wicipedia on the matter and I found
this from doing a google search.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing#History
As for me, always a double space bar between sentences, I am going to try the
one space bar and and have sighted folks tell me if the MS Word program does
infact do some sort of variable spacing to clearly indicate the end of one
sentence and another.
John
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Adrian Spratt
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:04 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: please help
Hi, Richard.
You couch your argument in terms of blind computer users making sure their
work looks as polished as our sighted colleagues. I agree with this concept,
but you do it a disservice by flatly asserting that double spaces meet that
objective. I was persuaded to switch to single spaces while using word
processors by several sighted people who observed too much space at the ends of
my sentences and by a man who has published the two standard texts on
typesetting and typeset conventions.
There may be special circumstances, such as the tab issue brought up by Ted
Lisle, but the Wikipedia entry to which G.W. Cox sent a link lays out the
history and current general preference.
This is one of those questions that is very hard for us to grasp because the
impact is purely visual. Unsupported, strongly worded assertions don't help.
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Richard P. Kelly
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:14 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: please help
Greetings all,
Proper formatting of a print document still calls for two spaces at the end
of a sentence, after a colon, and perhaps elsewhere. This remains true even
with mono spaced or proportionally spaced fonts. New word processors often
assure proper style is used if auto correct and grammar checking is on. Still,
we want what we print to look as polished as what our sighted colleagues
produce; if not better!
Cordially, Richard P. Kelly rpkelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.new-visions-network.com
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS)
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:50 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: please help
Now that's interesting. I Have seen one space from time to time, but never
knew why. I sometimes long for the days of Pica and Elite, when laying out a
document. In the immortal words of Edith Bunker, "You knew where you were
then." However, I've managed to figure out which font-size combinations are
functional equivalents of the old Pica, 10-space-per-horozontal-inch, format,
and that's what I use. Vertical spacing will have to look after itself.
Ted
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Adrian Spratt
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 6:37 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: please help
I preface this suggestion by acknowledging there's a debate about whether
there should be one or two spaces after the end of a sentence. Despite my
pre-computer typing training, I have been convinced that modern print fonts
mean that two spaces are no longer desirable. So the way I solve the problem
you describe is to search for two spaces and replace with one space. If you
think there might be an odd number of spaces, say three, then search for that
number first and replace with a single space. Then search for all instances of
a double space and replace with that single space.
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Hina
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 6:24 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: please help
hi,
i am writing a lots of reports and i did figure out formatting issues, but i
am not sure how will i know if there are extra spaces between words, sentenses
and paragraphs without reading word by word which is so time consuming? for
sighted people, microsoft word highlights but is there any way to know with
jaws? microsoft's spell checke option says that there is extra space and
suppose to change it to make corrections, but they still remain and is there a
way to deal with this issue with jaws?
i would be very thankful for your help.
hina.
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