Re: 2 Spaces Required Between Sentences

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Hi Rafael:

You keep "forgetting" this one, don't you :-) We have told you several
times over the past years, and the answer hasn't changed :-)

1) Search for ". " (period and two spaces) and change it to .%%

2) Search for ". " (period and one space) and change it to .%%

3) Search for ".%%" and change it to ". " (period and two spaces).

You can use any character you like in place of %, I use % because it is very
unlikely to occur in my text.

Is this a good time to mention that "two spaces" is wrong? :-) That is an
old convention that was introduced in the days of typewriters, to emulate
the behaviour of professional typesetters. A typesetter uses an "em space"
between sentences. It's a single fixed-width space.

Modern electronic typesetters will substitute this character whenever they
see "period, spaceband". So you do not need two spaces any more, unless you
are using a typewriter.

But as you can see, I can't stop myself from doing it, either :-)

Cheers


On 12/05/08 7:02 AM, in article C44CAD0D.704D%rmnospam@xxxxxxx, "Rafael
Montserrat" <rmnospam@xxxxxxx> wrote:

OS 10.4.11
Ibook G4
1.5 GB Ram
Word 2004

Hi,

My grammar settings are for 2 spaces required between sentences. I am
running the spell and grammar check on a long document which is full of one
space between sentences. The Grammar checker points each one out and I
change it. It's time consuming and boring.

My question is: how can I do a Find & Replace, and change those errors all
at once? I've tried various combinations in F&R, but I can't get it right.

Thanks, Rafael


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