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 anyway,
and therefore we don't need any extra help, or is there some other reason?

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Enjoy,
Tony


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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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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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
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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