Re: please help

  • From: "G.W. Cox" <gwcox2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:34:00 -0600

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Richard P. Kelly 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:13 AM
  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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