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Setting the Spacing Between Sentences
Designing the Page Layout
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Setting the Spacing
Between Sentences When you’re entering text into your file, you probably put two spaces after
a period before beginning the next sentence. Two spaces after a period is
also the default setting in TFORM. You can alter the spacing between
sentences using the STYLE SENTENCES command.
TFORM uses a special formula to decide what makes up a sentence.
Sentences must meet all these conditions:
A sentence consists of words (words must contain two or more
characters).
The words are followed by a period, colon, question mark, or
exclamation point.
The punctuation mark is followed by a single space.
The space is followed by a capitalized letter or word.
How TFORM recognizes sentences need not concern you, except when
sentence structure affects the spacing between your sentences. Watch out
for sentences that end with a single letter, or that begin or end with a
number. TFORM might not adjust the spacing correctly in these cases. For
example, TFORM does not recognize these entries as sentences:
The meeting was held in Room A.
1988 will be a banner year for new product introductions.
He’s arriving on flight 369.
TFORM places a single space after these sentences because it views this text
as words, and words are followed by single space.
TFORM can also misinterpret a period within a sentence. For example, if
you have an abbreviated form of address followed by a capitalized name,
TFORM inserts two spaces between the period and the name:
Come meet Ms. Riveria and welcome her to our company.
See the discussion of the required blank metacharacter in the PS TEXT
FORMAT Reference Manual for ways of overcoming these problems.