Hey guys.
How come (with the keyboard open) the first letter of a text is capitalised but the first letter after a full stop is not?
Thanks,
Ian
"Predictive" capitalisation
First letter after a full stop followed by a space is. Like this.
Not like this.A space always follows a full stop at the end of a sentence...
I'd rather it didn't capitalise automatically at all. Gets confusing when sending texts. Because it's a QWERTY keyboard, my instinct is to press shift before a letter when I start a new sentence, but doing that puts it back into lower case again.
zxon wrote:I'd rather it didn't capitalise automatically at all. Gets confusing when sending texts. Because it's a QWERTY keyboard, my instinct is to press shift before a letter when I start a new sentence, but doing that puts it back into lower case again.
Used to catch me out on the N95 8GB, as it took a while to actually capitalise the first letter, and I'd change case by mistake before the phone caught up with my uber-texting. 😉 Don't know if that happens on the N97 or not though.
davecozens wrote:First letter after a full stop followed by a space is. Like this.Not like this.A space always follows a full stop at the end of a sentence...
Ignore me if I'm wrong but grammatically speaking isn't it one space after a comma and TWO after a full stop?. Nokia just trying to save texting space?.
LJS wrote:Ignore me if I'm wrong but grammatically speaking isn't it one space after a comma and TWO after a full stop?. Nokia just trying to save texting space?.
Grammatically you're right, it should be two spaces after a full stop (I learnt this when I was writing assignments at college/university). If it's something of grave importance, I do this, otherwise I just use one space... or sometimes none at all if I'm trying to squeeze everything into one text 😃
zxon wrote:Grammatically you're right, it should be two spaces after a full stop (I learnt this when I was writing assignments at college/university). If it's something of grave importance, I do this, otherwise I just use one space... or sometimes none at all if I'm trying to squeeze everything into one text 😃
This isn't necessarily correct grammar, it's actually a historical throwback to the use of typewriters. There is a lot of debate over whether it's really neccessary. I haven't had to use double-spaces for university assignments, scientific papers or books.
jamessmith01 wrote:This isn't necessarily correct grammar, it's actually a historical throwback to the use of typewriters. There is a lot of debate over whether it's really neccessary. I haven't had to use double-spaces for university assignments, scientific papers or books.
When I'm feeling particularly decadent I use a triple space!
"The two spaces convention was brought about by the use of monospaced font on typewriters to approximate an em space, and carried on by tradition. However, this more closely approximates traditional typography, as even in proportional fonts an inter-word space is nearly always much narrower than an em space. "
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop
davecozens wrote:When I'm feeling particularly decadent I use a triple space!"The two spaces convention was brought about by the use of monospaced font on typewriters to approximate an em space, and carried on by tradition. However, this more closely approximates traditional typography, as even in proportional fonts an inter-word space is nearly always much narrower than an em space. "
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop
Ah yes, doesn't Word etc. resize the space automatically anyway? Triple space, wow, your thumbs must be working overtime!
jamessmith01 wrote:Triple space, wow, your thumbs must be working overtime!
Quite... 😉
Hah, so the problem was I was using too many spaces! Thanks guys, I'll try and teach myself to use just the one now.
The auto-capitalisation used to wind me up no end on the E90, but shifting is quite a lot harder on the N97 so I'm thankful for the feature now.
Omroth wrote:Hah, so the problem was I was using too many spaces! Thanks guys, I'll try and teach myself to use just the one now.The auto-capitalisation used to wind me up no end on the E90, but shifting is quite a lot harder on the N97 so I'm thankful for the feature now.
I find it difficult to get the shift key. I also hate having to [shift .] to get [,]!