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From: jans@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Frame (1.0) spaces
Message-ID: <6137@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 12 Oct 89 20:33:58 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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<When using Frame 1.0 (from NeXT release 1.0),  can you not type two 
consecutive spaces when typing text.  When I'm typing text, tabs don't work and 
after the first space character, pressing the space bar has no effect.>

If it is similar to Frame on Tek workstations, you must set up your tabs the 
way you want them in order to fix the amount of space between columns or 
whatever.

When you think of it, what are the semantics of multiple spaces in a WYSIWYG 
doc-prep system?  Depending on justification, alignment, kerning, hyphenation 
threshold, page keeps, et. al., there can be any amount of space between words!

IMHO, they got it right -- only allow explicitly declared whitespace, and 
disallow archaic reliance on "space" as some kind of "character", which it 
really isn't.  The semantics of the space bar in WYSIWYG doc-prep should be 
"begin a new word".

If you actually need to place more than one consecutive ASCII space character 
in a file, Frame is probably an inappropriate tool.

							   Jan Steinman - N7JDB
						  Electronic Systems Laboratory
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