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Article #5369Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)
From: Peter T. Daniels
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 13:40
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.") -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net
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