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Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)

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From: Peter T. Daniels
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 13:40
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Torsten Poulin wrote:
> 
> 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.

Does Danish use spacing for emphasis, as in German? (German uses
"gesperrt" rather than "kursiv.")
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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net
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