A proportional font is simply one where each letter is as wide as it needs
to be - "i" and "w" being the two extremes. In a non-proportional, or
fixed-width, font each character takes the same width leading to
artificially wide "i"s and narrow "w"s.

If you are fully justifying your text, you do not, and can not, have total
control over individual spacing between words and/or sentences - it will
conflict with the justification. If you try for exact spacing - 3
centimetres, say, using an Advance Field, justification will not work
properly - because, again, there is a conflict.

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Enjoy,
Tony


"BorisS" wrote in message
...
and if anyone can explain what proportional fonts are, I'd be curious as
well. My rationale is quite a simple one...the people I am producing this
for like to see a certain amount of space between two sentences. I am
guessing by its name that "proportional" fonts means that spacing actually
adjust?

Let's take a real example. If I wanted EXACTLY 3cm between two sentences
(just picking a number, and assuming that is what is equal to two regular
spaces), how would I accomplish that?

Keep in mind, I also have to full justify the paragraphs I write, so I
don't
know if that'll affect the answer given.

Thanks to whomever is providing the education on this (I guess Graham?).

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Boris


"Tony Jollans" wrote:

I have now (long since) adjusted to using a single space but, purely out
of
interest, what is the logic of this?

I understood that double spacing was used to make the gaps between
sentences
more noticeable. How do proportional fonts obviate the need for this?
The
full stop in most fonts is less obvious than in fixed width typewriter
fonts
and the insignificant gap provided by a single space does not clearly
mark
the sentence. Is it just that proportional fonts are easier to read anyw
ay,
and therefore we don't need any extra help, or is there some other
reason?

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Tony


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
And I would leave it with a single space as double spaces were for
typewriters and we have moved on a bit since then. We now have
proportional
fonts

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Tony Jollans wrote:
I would search for period, space, (not space) - and replace it with
period, space, space, whatever the (not space) was. To do this:

Find . ([! ]) - that's period, space, left parenthesis, left
bracket,
exclamation mark, space, right bracket, right parenthesis

Replace . \1 - that's period, space, space, backslash, one

Check Use Wildcards
Hit Replace All

You can record code for it if you want.


"BorisS" wrote in message
news I need to do a find and replace on all single spaces after periods,
and replace with two spaces. The problem, of course, is that if I
do just a straight period-space conversion, I will include the
places that already have a period and two spaces after them (with
the find just ignoring the second space in its search).

How can I indicate that I only want it to find periods with a space
and some character after the space, as the find criteria? And then
also importantly, how do I tell it to replace the period-space with
period-two space, and then leave the character untouched?

Thanks.
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Boris