There is another possible meaning for "points." In American
typography a point is 1/72 of an inch and this measure is often
used for type size, leading, and a few other oddball things.
Allen
Grammar: Knowing there is no there there, that it is not their
there, and that they're not there. (With apologies to Gertrude
Stein)
On 3/26/2014 2:47 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 20:16 26/03/2014 +0200, Zograph Orizovski wrote:
... my question is really about another. Is there an option
for automatic distance between words in a sentence such as
this: OpenOffice --- is- mnogo…khubava----programa-redaktor,
-no------poradi-tova, -che---ne--e------na-bulgarski -
Difficult --- is - Finding -------in options. This is a copy
of a page of the site set for editing, but not just one, but
hundreds of pages. Hyphens between words consider them points.
I hope my question this time is more accurate description.
As previous replies have suggested, I fear this is not much
clearer! Anything automatic would have to be defined, and you
have not done this: you need to explain what the rule would be
for creating the particular spacing which you would find
satisfactory. You clearly do not want equal spacing - but what
do you want, please?
And what does "[h]yphens ... consider them points" mean,
please? Do you mean that you actually want points ("full
stops", "periods") instead of the hyphens you show - or
something else?
One thing you might mean is that you want various parts of your
text to be spaced in some special way - perhaps so that the
text of separate lines line up in columns - and that you want
the consequent spaces to be filled with hyphens or points. You
can do that by setting tab stops at appropriate positions in
your text and using tab characters to space the material
between the columns. Go to Format | Paragraph... | Tabs and you
will find that you can set a "fill character" there, to occupy
the space between items. Hyphens and points are both possible
options.
There is no reason why "hundreds of pages" should be any
problem: once you have found the solution, you can very likely
apply it to all your material fairly easily. You may find it
more productive to set the tabs and fill characters in a
paragraph style instead of in direct paragraph formatting.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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