On 15 Sep 2013, at 02:32, Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
On 9/14/2013 12:19 PM, Michael Everson wrote:
And as a book designer and publisher, I think that having large spaces after
a full stop is both unnecessary and vulgar.
Quote from the blog:
This does not change my view.
On 9/14/2013 6:24 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
It facilitates comment by those who are reviewing the text.
If you add proofreaders' marks to an especially difficult manuscript,
maybe. I've barely seen annotated papers with comments that would not
have fit into the margins, and there's still the
On 14/09/2013 6:42, Michael Everson wrote:
On 14 Sep 2013, at 02:30, Stephan Stiller stephan.stil...@gmail.com wrote:
This means that this dot will then need to be followed by two spaces when it is
used as a sentence-ending period.
This tradition is no longer current in the US. Though it's
On 14 Sep 2013, at 19:11, Jim Allan jallan...@rogers.com wrote:
See http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324 which claims with numerous
examples that Michael Everson is totally wrong.
It's what I was taught.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
And, FWIW, so also was I taught, in a typing class in 1952.
Peter
On 2013-09-14 14:44, Michael Everson wrote:
On 14 Sep 2013, at 19:11, Jim Allan jallan...@rogers.com wrote:
See http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324 which claims with numerous examples
that Michael Everson is totally
And as a book designer and publisher, I think that having large spaces after a
full stop is both unnecessary and vulgar.
On 14 Sep 2013, at 20:12, Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD p...@ingerman.org
wrote:
And, FWIW, so also was I taught, in a typing class in 1952.
Peter
On 2013-09-14 14:44,
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 08:19:54PM +0100, Michael Everson wrote:
And as a book designer and publisher, I think that having large spaces after
a full stop is both unnecessary and vulgar.
As a book consumer, I know that having somewhat larger space after
end-of-sentence is a MUST (at least for
But this article is excellent. Even if it also contains opinions of the
author about aberrant French practices, some of them are still prevalent
such as the persistant use of an extra spacing before colon, semi-colon,
exclamation and question marks, and within guillemets:
- the practice is still
For sure, large spaces will look ugly with texts written with very short
sentences like yours, because that will create ugly rivers everywhere.
Consider that it is a matter of style, which must be adapted to the nature
of texts and author's own lingusitic style.
- If you had to typeset the Bible
On 9/14/2013 12:19 PM, Michael Everson wrote:
And as a book designer and publisher, I think that having large spaces after a
full stop is both unnecessary and vulgar.
Quote from the blog:
While the modern convention is the single space, it is no less
arbitrary than any other, and if
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