RE: Two Spaces Punctuation Repeated
- From: "Mullins, Chris" <Chris.Mullins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:45:39 -0000
Placing 2 spaces after a period or full stop as we say in the UK is a
standard taught in typing/word processing classes an is not
grammatically incorrect.
Cheers
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Judith Bron
Sent: 28 November 2007 15:07
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Two Spaces Punctuation Repeated
Adrian, I also put two spaces in between sentences and MS Word never
identifies that as a grammatical error. Now that I think of it Word
never announces spaces unless I put two spaces in between words like
"the boy".
When I put three spaces in between sentences an error is announced.
Judith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Spratt" <A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: Two Spaces Punctuation Repeated
> Tom,
>
> I've been watching this thread with interest, if only because I'm
> missing something important. It would be extremely annoying to have
> spaces announced when reading a document for comprehension. Although I
> work mainly in WordPerfect, I have some experience in Word. I am
> unaware of spaces being announced in either program. So, are you
> referring to a setting?
>
> Some points I can address:
>
> 1. To justify is to make the left or right margins, or both, a
> straight line. If left or right justification is on, to make the
> margin even, letters and spaces on a line will be stretched out or
> shortened to meet the spatial requirement.
>
> 2. People who learned to type before the advent of computers were
> taught to press the spacebar twice between sentences, presumably to
> highlight visually the switch to the next sentence. Both MS Word and
> WordPerfect theoretically make the formatting adjustment so that only
> one space is required. I say "theoretically" because WordPerfect won't
> allow you to copy or move a sentence unless it has two spaces before
> and after. I don't know if this sentence parameter applies to MS Word.
>
> So, again, how are you getting MS Word to announce spaces at all?
> Maybe that answer will lead to a solution of the problem.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom S" <tsykora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>> Hi Pat,
>> I am not sure what justified the text means, but I am pretty sure the
>> author did hit his space bar twice between certain words as I just
>> did now. I called FS and they did not have any ideas. One techie
>> said I should run repair, and another offered some maybe help, but
>> the solutions they were offering went against my own computer related
>> Hippocratic oath of first do no harm lol Maybe I will just have to
>> live with jaws saying two spaces every time any text file has two
>> spaces instead of one.
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>
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