From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25148 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Stark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: highlighting and fontification Date: 18 Sep 1999 22:56:32 -0400 Organization: People's Front Against MWM Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87wvtnvcbj.fsf@x2-513.mtl.Generation.NET> References: <199909152213.SAA72350@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162587 12522 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:09:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:09:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA16652 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:57:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAB00018; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 21:57:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 18 Sep 1999 21:57:44 -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 VAA03233 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 21:57:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sparkle.Generation.NET (sparkle.Generation.NET [205.205.119.4]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA16639 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:56:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from x2-513.mtl.Generation.NET (brnstndkramden.acf.nyu.edu@x2-117.mtl.Generation.NET [209.205.10.25]) by sparkle.Generation.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA06225; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:56:49 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: "Edward J. Sabol" In-Reply-To: "Edward J. Sabol"'s message of "Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:13:31 -0400 (EDT)" Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25148 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25148 "Edward J. Sabol" writes: > Professional typesetting for books, etc. has never followed it to begin with. > Pick up any book, and you won't find the spacing between sentences to be any > larger than the spacing between words. You certainly will, but only if you measure it carefully or have a very discerning eye for these things. The difference in width is much smaller than a factor of 2. Things generally went the other way; professional typesetting has existed much longer than typewriters. Early typewriters were much more limiting than lead typesetting, so many conventions for typesetting were adapted for typewriters. Underlining was used where italics were appropriate, periods were placed before quotes instead of kerned underneath them, and spaces were doubled after periods instead of merely widened by a small amount. Most of these conventions should have been forgotten when typewriters became more capable and certainly should have by now with computers. But as often happens the approximations are what most people have become familiar with and are now repeated as rules without any idea what the original goal was. -- greg