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Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)

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From: Torsten Poulin
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 22:58
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LEE Sau Dan wrote:

> I mean, the space is spread evenly between every pair of
> glyphs. Typographers do that in the Latin script.

I don't think that is common in continental European typography.
It is a definite no-no in Danish typography to play games with
the spacing between the letters when you want flush margins. You
are only allowed to adjust the space between the words.

-- 
Torsten
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From: Torsten Poulin <t_usenet_drop@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)
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