From: Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org>
To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: characterspacing not always working in LMTX
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:02:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200115120200.zudwxt2niqn23aim@phare.normalesup.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9B89A203-F52F-46B8-99E5-E996A7F77507@elvenkind.com>
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 11:29:35AM +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Dutch typesetting had some rules for thin spaces in a transition period from full spaces (early) to no spaces (modern).
>
> Much of this change happened in the (late) 19th century, so I guess it had more to do with linotype/monotype than with modern digitisation.
I think it happened at about the same time for English. Before that
it was pretty universal. See https://archive.org/details/worksbenjaminfr06spargoog/page/n12
for just one example.
(The thin space in that example is really thin! -- but it’s definitely
there)
Best,
Arthur
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-14 21:58 Joseph
2020-01-14 22:24 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-01-14 22:25 ` Thomas Savary
2020-01-15 9:15 ` Hans Hagen
2020-01-15 10:29 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-01-15 12:02 ` Arthur Reutenauer [this message]
2020-01-15 15:10 ` Thomas Savary
2020-01-15 15:16 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-01-17 8:41 ` Thomas Savary
2020-01-17 9:01 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-01-15 14:59 ` Thomas Savary
2020-01-15 9:16 ` Hans Hagen
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