From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25096 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mick Gower Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: highlighting and fontification Date: 13 Sep 1999 22:46:36 +0100 Organization: Taking No Notice Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <37D7F38C.6417009@orgtek.com> <871zc2hdb9.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> 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 1035162545 12285 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:09:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org 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 RAA09649 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:46:45 -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 QAB25687; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:46:40 -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 16:46:49 -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 QAA26334 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:46:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from oracle.clara.net (oracle.clara.net [195.8.69.94]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA09608 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:45:34 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from [212.126.132.16] (helo=dexter.clara.co.uk) by oracle.clara.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 11QduW-0007S3-00; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:45:16 +0100 Original-Received: (from mick@localhost) by dexter.clara.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA00874; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:46:38 +0100 Original-To: Florian Weimer X-URL: http://i.am/knackered/ X-Attribution: MJG In-Reply-To: Florian Weimer's message of "13 Sep 1999 20:32:58 +0200" Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25096 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25096 >>> Florian Weimer writes: FW> 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. 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