From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: characterspacing not always working in LMTX
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:29:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9B89A203-F52F-46B8-99E5-E996A7F77507@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c13e4862-3e5f-4fd2-3e4c-d48e98bc4317@xs4all.nl>
> On 15 Jan 2020, at 10:15, Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> By the way, thin spaces are not specific to French typography, historically speaking, since they seem to have been used everywhere in Europe for centuries — at least in England, Belgium, Germany and Italy (probably in the Netherlands too, I will check). In France and sometimes in England, thin spaces were often used before commas as well. I wonder why most countries stopped using them. Out of laziness ? :-)
> never seen them in dutch ... i think not so much lazyness but side effect of going digital ... i bet that these spaces were also (ab)used to justify lines (cheat a bit) i.e. manual injection of some lead blob
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.
Best wishes,
Taco
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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 [this message]
2020-01-15 12:02 ` Arthur Reutenauer
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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