Actually most typographers dropped the two spaces after a sentence once computers came into vogue for printing use - and that is because of the proportional spacing most programs use.
Try telling a typography class now that you need two spaces after a sentence and I think you might be surprised at the reaction you would get. The two space convention was only used once typewriters came to the fore - and its been dropped by most now that typewriters are not used as much. jk On 6/12/2011 7:34 PM, CE WOOD wrote: > Actually, if you produce an html, you can copy, import into WORD, and > have much better results than using RTF. > The major problems with this, especially if you are a pedant: > Some major problems, some of which are because of the grammatically > ignorant Legacy programmers (why can't they use correct grammar?): > Sentences are separated by only one space, rather than the > grammatically correct two spaces. > Colons are followed by only one space, rather than the grammatically > correct two spaces. > Books must be double bracket coded to show correctly as underlined. > Legacy coding for italicizing does not work. > There are others, too, but those are the few that come to mind. > Once in WORD, Find and Replace make many corrections easy, and those > corrections are MUCH easier when pasted from the html than from RTF! > CE > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* James Cook <mailto:[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, June 12, 2011 12:52 PM > *Subject:* Re: Re: [LegacyUG] 49/up0 > > ....I know there are some who edit and update > the generated reports quite extensively, and RTF is the only option > for that. > Hope that helps. > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
