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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: highlighting and fontification
Date: 13 Sep 1999 20:32:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871zc2hdb9.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "12 Sep 1999 01:16:18 -0400"

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> * Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)  on Fri, 10 Sep 1999
> | Americans emphasize like <em>this?</em>
> | And Europeans emphasise like <em>this</em>?
> 
> Pretty much.

Knuth writes in his TeXbook that this convention is changing and he's
recommending the latter, and he's following it in his books (judging
from a more-or-less random sample).

> A couple of others that I can think of: American typography (typographical
> convention) puts two spaces after the punctuation that ends a sentence,
> European typography tends to use only one[1].  

Jan Tschichold recommends putting an extra space after a such a
punctuation (except for very dense lines, of course).  So this isn't
a purely American convention.


  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-09-13 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-09 17:51 Daniel Monjar
1999-09-09 21:55 ` Jack Vinson
1999-09-09 22:34 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1999-09-10 15:35   ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-09-10 16:24     ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-10 16:32       ` Emerick Rogul
1999-09-10 18:29       ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-09-10 19:01         ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-12  5:16           ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-09-13  9:17             ` Michael Piotrowski
1999-09-13 18:32             ` Florian Weimer [this message]
1999-09-13 21:46               ` Mick Gower
1999-09-15 22:13                 ` Edward J. Sabol
1999-09-19  2:56                   ` Greg Stark
1999-09-25  0:47                   ` Ken McGlothlen
1999-10-05  1:40                   ` François Pinard
1999-10-05 14:13                     ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-10-05 22:49                       ` Russ Allbery
1999-10-06  0:45                         ` David Coe
1999-09-14 12:33               ` Toby Speight
1999-09-14  8:24             ` Tibor Simko
1999-09-11  1:44         ` Rene H. Larsen
1999-09-11  7:06           ` Graham Murray
1999-09-12  5:05             ` Stainless Steel Rat

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