On 09/22/2009 10:12 PM, John Kaufmann wrote:
> A couple weeks ago, in a thread begun by someone else ("How do you turn
> a single spaced Doc into double-spaced?"), an inapt answer to the OP's
> question - suggesting search-and-replace to turn all single spaces into
> double spaces - prompted me to ask about whether OO had no more elegant
> handling of word spacing. The replies misconstrued the question (which
> simply means that I asked it poorly), and there have been no further
> posts on that thread. Meanwhile I have learned more about the OO
> paradigm, so maybe I resurrect the question, in its own thread, with
> more clarity:
>
> The OO paradigm is built on document *structure*. As opposed to list
> processing or stream-oriented word processing, OO recognizes, and tries
> to encapsulate, structural entities. With respect to text, those
> entities seem to be characters, lines, paragraphs, and OO provides
> formatting capabilities to independently adjust spacing of each of those
> entities. However, AFAICS there is no comparable treatment for words or
> sentences - no recognition of words or sentences as structural elements,
> and no independent spacing adjustments between words or between
> sentences. Is that correct?
>
> John
Yes/no.
Yes there is no comarable treatment for words.
No, there is spacing for sentences; indent, line spacing, single, 1.5
lines, double proportional, at least, leading, fixed.
Perhaps you are looking for a desktop publisher instead of a word processor?
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