-> MM> Hmmmm....   I have never used the SPELLER....  It probably wouldn
-> MM> hurt, but friends have used Word Perfect SPELLER programs that ha
-> MM> mangled their text:  removing multiple spaces, for instance.  I
-> MM> would  hate to have a program "second guessing" how many spaces I
-> MM> wanted in  the document.  For instance, a colon requires two spac
-> MM> following.  With my friends' documents, it is maddening having to
-> MM> "correct" a  thousand and one "double-space" conversions.   Oh, a
-> MM> not to mention  the general requirement that a period be followed
-> MM> two spaces, not  one.
->
-> MM> Tell me, did Word Perfect ever fix that particular bug?  I wouldn
-> MM> want to use their SPELLER program if they hadn't.
->
-> First of all, it is no longer considered good
-> practice to use double spaces following periods, etc.
 
I dispute that, and do not accept that.  Worse, some people are putting
the closing quotation mark before the period (comma, semicolon, &c.)...
  
Just because somebody decided to tell you it was okay to put just one
space after the period, doesn't mean it's so.
 
->
-> Second, (I'm talking WordPerfect dos 6.1 here)
-> It's probably QuickCorrect that's giving them trouble.
-> It can be configured as you please, or turned off
-> completely.  It can even make one space into two at the
-> end of a sentence.
 
Which explains quite a bit.  I routinely use WP 5.1, and my friends had
somehow found it in their wisdom to go with WP 6.0, or the Windows
garden variety.  (If there is such a thing.)  I hated being handed a
document that was horribly mangled, and then trying to fix it.  You can
get away --- sometimes --- with single spacing, in a proportional font,
but it looks absolutely awful in a fixed spacing font, such as
Courier...
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