Re: One space (or two) after a paragraph?

[Mike Starr <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>]

No spaces at the end of paragraphs for me, thanks.

It's probably part the writer and part the tool. You write a bunch of 
stuff and it tends to gather in a single paragraph. When you figure out 
the paragraph needs to be broken up, you put the cursor in front of the 
first word of a sentence and press {Enter}. Voila... the previous 
paragraph now ends with {period}{space}{paragraph}. It happens with 
lists as well... they start as a sentence with a collection of items 
separated by commas and spaces and at a certain point it's appropriate 
to convert it into a bulleted list. Click cursor in front of an item and 
press {Enter}.

I come from a time when file space was a consideration and years ago I 
got in the (possibly mildly OCD) habit of doing a series of global 
search and replace functions for:

 * {occurrence of from 2 to 80 spaces) and replace with {space}
 * {tab}{tab} and replace with {tab}
 * {space}{space}and replace with {space}
 * {period}{space}{paragraph} and replace with {period}{paragraph}
 * {paragraph}{space} and replace with {paragraph}
 * {paragraph}{paragraph} and replace with {paragraph}.

Lather, rinse, repeat... Fortunately, it takes about five minutes one 
time to create a macro to do this sort of stuff. After that it takes 
about three seconds to run the macro on a document.

The OCD aspect comes in as well when I receive documents from others 
that I'm not responsible for maintaining and probably won't be using in 
my own work... I still tend to do that ritual to those documents and 
save my own copy. It's kind of like the concept of seeing someone else's 
kid with a dirty smudge on their face and grabbing a washcloth and 
wiping it off (not something I'd ever have the nerve to do but you get 
the point).

Best Regards,

Mike
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On 8/21/2015 9:08 PM, Steven Jong wrote: