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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] Re: Different character widths in Linux
From:       RBE <rbe () flash ! net>
Date:       2003-01-31 18:33:46
Message-ID: 200301311833.h0VIXnNg125356 () pimout3-ext ! prodigy ! net
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On Friday 31 January 2003 2:44 am, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Florian Brunner <fbrunnerlist@gmx.ch> writes:
> > with most fonts of the Linux version there are different character
> > widths for the same character within the same font. Especially the
> > space and the line character are sometimes hardly visible.
>
> Despite popular belief there is no space character. Space is just the
> space between characters. When you use a proportionally spaced font
> (like Times or Helvetica) and paragraph justification, the space is
> dynamically calculated to make the lines fill.

In Hex, when the Space bar is hit, a code (character) in entered.  I 
suspect that's what he means.

> Likewise, there is no line character. There's a hyphen, a minus, an
> en-dash and an em-dash, each with a different purpose and of a
> different width.

Again, I suspect he means "end-of-line" character.  In modern word 
processors, that is handled dynamically and only a paragraph end 
character is created.

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