From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25090 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: highlighting and fontification Date: 13 Sep 1999 20:32:58 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <871zc2hdb9.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> References: <37D7F38C.6417009@orgtek.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162540 12234 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:09:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:09:00 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA04859 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:38:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAB23572; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:38:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:37:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24586 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:37:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.netic.de (mail.s.netic.de [212.9.160.11]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA04820 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:36:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by mail.netic.de (Smail3.2.0.106/mail.s.netic.de) via LF.net GmbH Internet Services via remoteip 194.163.56.20 via remotehost cygnus.argh.org with esmtp for mailhost.sclp.com id m11Qawa-001WylC; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:35:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from deneb.cygnus.argh.org ([192.168.1.2] ident=root) by cygnus.argh.org with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11Qaub-0000GJ-00 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:33:09 +0200 Original-Received: from fw by deneb.cygnus.argh.org with local (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11QauQ-0000Gn-00 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:32:58 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "12 Sep 1999 01:16:18 -0400" Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25090 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25090 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > * Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) on Fri, 10 Sep 1999 > | Americans emphasize like this? > | And Europeans emphasise like this? > > 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.