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Subject:No, Frame gives no extra space betw sentences From:"Mark L. Levinson" <mark -at- MEMCO -dot- CO -dot- IL> Date:Fri, 14 Aug 1998 16:37:02 +0300
Shaun wrote, sincerely I'm sure:
> I know that FrameMaker has a feature that disallows you from manually
> double-spacing, and it makes up for the space ratio that should exist
> after a period as opposed to a space between words.
Maybe you're using some settings I'm not familiar with, Shaun, but
if I blow up Times font nice and big in FrameMaker so that I can
measure it, I don't see that there is any more space padding the
period on the right than on the left, I don't see that a period
and a subsequent space take up any more width than the sum of a
period elsewhere and a space elsewhere, and I don't see that a
period at the end of a sentence is spaced differently from a
period elsewhere. In short, this making up for the space ratio
that should exist sounds like a myth to me.
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