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Article #5371Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)
From: LEE Sau Dan
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:48
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:48
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>>>>> "Torsten" == Torsten Poulin <t_usenet_drop@hotmail.com> writes:
Torsten> LEE Sau Dan wrote:
>> I mean, the space is spread evenly between every pair of
>> glyphs. Typographers do that in the Latin script.
Torsten> I don't think that is common in continental European
Torsten> typography.
I was talking about Thai, where they don't put spaces between words.
So, a "natural" method to extend lines up to a certain length is to
spread the extra space needed into between two glyphs.
In European typography (Latin, Cyrillic, Greek), where you put spaces
between words, the extra space needed to extend a line to the desired
length is spread into the word-separating spaces, rather than
individual glyphs.
In Chinese typesetting, the also put the extra space between
characters evenly so that the lines on a page (except at the paragraph
beginnings and endings) all have the same length.
In Arabic typesetting, they would instead length the joining line
between glyphs/ligatures to make the line long enough.
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