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Re: Space between sentences--Eureka! the source of confusion
Subject:Re: Space between sentences--Eureka! the source of confusion From:SUBSCRIBE TECHWR-L Anonymous <rdphillip -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 28 Jul 1999 01:11:10 -0500
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:56:57 -0400, Dick Margulis
<ampersandvirgule -at- WORLDNET -dot- ATT -dot- NET> wrote:
>You cannot do everything in PageMaker, FrameMaker,
>Quark, or Interleaf that you can do on a Penta system, for example, or
>in LaTeX. One of the thing they cannot do is handle French spacing
>automatically. If an en or em quad follow a period comes at the end of a
>line, there will be white space at the end of the line. If the line ends
>with a period, the quad will appear at the beginning of the following
>line. Double spacing works no better, with the second space sometimes
>appearing as a small indent on the following line.
Huh? I always use two spaces between sentences. Neither WordPerfect nor
PageMaker 4.0 places an unwanted space at either the beginning or end of a
line.
