[scribus] Removing extra spaces??

Chris Bannister cbannister at slingshot.co.nz
Sat Nov 15 15:39:58 UTC 2014


On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 09:54:58PM -0500, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 11/13/2014 04:34 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> >On 11/13/2014 12:56 PM, john Culleton wrote:
> >>When the typewriter
> >>came along the instructions were to put two space
> >>characters after a full stop to emulate this
> >>practice.
> >
> >You do know, don't you, that the typewriter was invented in the 1860's,
> >and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) was probably the first book
> >written using a typewriter?  All of this long predates everything in your
> >history.
> >
> You have to consider that with John, everything is another opportunity to
> talk about TeX, which as we know, he is quite fond of.

So it *wasn't* you who wrote the typewriter practice course? :)

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