[Users] word wrapping

[Thomas Taylor]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:04:54 +1100
blind Pete <peter_s_d at fastmail.com.au> wrote:

> Hi everyone, 
> 
> I've just noticed an oddity about word wrapping.  
> 
> Back back in the day when dinosaurs roamed the earth and students leant
> typing in a room full of mechanical typewriters, it was drilled into us
> the correct way to type was with *one* space after a word or lesser
> punctuation mark, but *two* spaces after sentence ending full stop,
> question mark, or exclamation mark.  After dabbling in typography,
> kerning and all of that I tend to agree, although in the modern era of
> one finger typists and 'leat speak, it does seem to be an unknown
> nicety.  
> 
> Anyway, CM's auto word wrapping strips out the "unnecessary" space.  Is
> there any way to turn that off?  Or should I ask for an enhancement?
> Something like a check box to double space between sentences, or after
> the characters; '.', '?', and '!' under /Configuraton -> Settings ->
> Compose -> Wrapping/?  Spaniards would probably want the upsidedown
> versions of those.  
> 

Word wrapping can be turned off or on in "Configure > Preferences >
Wrapping" (in 3.11.0).  Not a direct answer to stripping out spaces but it
would allow you to format the way you wish.

Tom  -  old school, two spaces after period.

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