Is there any possibility to add “double-spacebar” shortcut that adds full-stop at the end of the sentence, like on Apple products?
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Do you mean the non breaking space what is fixed size, or the normal Space character, what will be resized whin you use the Justified alignment option for your paragraphs?
You can change the “punctuation mark at the end of a sentence AND the one space” to a “punctuation mark at the end of a sentence AND two spaces” by usage the Find and Replace feature and the Regular expressions option and feature.
You need do it with all of used punctuation marks.
Although this “double space after punctuation” is still recommended and used in the US, I advocate against it with modern text processors. It had justifications during the mechanical typewriter era but causes justification problems now. When a line is laid out, excess space is uniformly spread out on the existing spaces. Therefore, this double space will receive two “justification quanta” and will look really wide.
Traditional typographic rules did not define this as a double space but initially as an em-space. This changed in the early 20th century to en-quad. In the 40s in the US, 50s in UK, newspapers and magazines began using single ordinary space but typists didn’t move to the new spacing. Recent publishing rules (1989, 1993, 2006) all indicate uniform spacing should be used between words, including between sentences.
So, unless you’re really constrained by some house-convention, don’t bother with enlarged sentence spacing.
You mean type space space and get just a full stop?
On a proper keyboard I don’t think it is required unless you want to learn bad typing habits. A quick search on the internet came up with lots of sites with advice on how to turn it off.
I think you would need a macro as AutoCorrect won’t do it.
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Note that OP does not tell about two spaces after a dot, but rather about a shortcut coming from mobile phones, where not pressing a dot, but instead pressing a larger (and easier to press) space bar twice inserts a dot + space.
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That’s exactly what I meant, shortcut coming from mobile phones. It’s not about space character or something like that, but simple thing for faster typing. I wanted to add a video but it isn’t possible. When I am writing here, in google search, WhatsApp Web, Pages app on Mac, everywhere except in Libre Writer I just get a full-stop(dot) and one normal space character. That is what I am looking for. Cause I think it is a bit easier and faster for those who are typing a lot. And full-stop button is a little bit out of my reach while I am holding hands on the keyboard.
I don’t think people who type really fast on a keyboard need this, except for relaxing the finger used for the dot-key. It may even come as a unwanted surprise to a learned typist who is used to “one key=one char”.
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On the programming side we would need an double-click detection on keys. Have not seen that anywhere. For mobile devices it is usually a virtual keyboard on screen, so the usual double-mouseclick can be used. But I guess this is done inside the virtual keyboard, so transparent / invisible to apps…
Totally agree…
… which seems to be an OS feature then. Which we should then likely support if it’s enabled on the system…