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
That's correct as far as I can see. It's not something I've ever wanted
to do, to be honest. It's not too difficult to achieve something of the
required effect though.
To increase spacing between words:
Open the Find and Replace dialog, type a space in the "Search for" box
then choose "Find all". Then, while all the spaces are highlighted, go
to Format-Character and on the Position tab expand the spacing as desired.
If you want to only increase the spacing between words for a certain
font, search for only spaces in that font, using the Format button on
the More Options part of the Find and replace dialog.
To increase spacing between sentences, search for ". " and then proceed
as above.
Maybe not as convenient as a switch within a style, but not too bad...
Hope this helps.
Andy
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