Re: highlighting and fontification

[Mick Gower <mick@dexter.clara.co.uk>]

>>> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> writes:

FW> 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.

FW> Knuth writes in his TeXbook that this convention is changing and he's
FW> recommending the latter, and he's following it in his books (judging
FW> 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].  

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

The British Military had a manual for typography and that, IIRC, is two
spaces after the and of a sentence ie after full stop, question mark and 
exclamation mark and one space after a break in a sentence ie after a
comma or semi-colon. I think the manual was known as the JSP101.
-- 
Mick Gower