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Article #12554Re: Hyphens, Ens or Ems?
From: Dominic Hurley
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 02:52
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 02:52
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To be fair to Bringhurst, I don't think he was suggesting that em rules were never used as dashes prior to the nineteenth century; rather that their use became standardised over that period and can be seen in retrospect as part of a nineteenth-century aesthetic in typesetting. Gutenberg seems to have been hit by inflation - it was previously the 42-line Bible! Cheers, Dominic
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