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Article #5382Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)
From: LEE Sau Dan
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:52
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:52
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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Farris <maf@amu.edu.pl> writes:
Michael> TO make the ends of the lines even. Line breaks in Thai
Michael> (usually? always?) coincide with words. Getting the
Michael> margins on either side even means inserting a space
Michael> somewhere in the line.
Somewhere? Isn't it _everywhere_ in high-quality printing? I mean,
the space is spread evenly between every pair of glyphs. Typographers
do that in the Latin script. Don't they do that in Thai?
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