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From: Richard Fozzard
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 22:23
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 22:23
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In article <38336@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >The quick and dirty rule of thumb would be to use two spaces with a >monospace font and one spave with a proportional (typeset) font (assuming a >laser printer or better -- for dot-matrix, you probably want to use two >spaces all the time). Why only one space with a proportional font? In the fonts I use, a space is among the very narrowest characters, so that only one space gives almost no separation between sentences, while monospaced fonts have bigger space characters, giving more separation. rich ======================================================================== Richard Fozzard "Serendipity empowers" University of Colorado/CIRES/NOAA/ERL/FSL fozzard@boulder.colorado.edu (303)497-6011 or 444-3168
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!boulder!fozzard From: fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Typesetting formats... Message-ID: <16583@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 5 Feb 90 22:23:43 GMT References: <1990Feb4.224159.26586@athena.mit.edu> <38336@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 19