On 18.10.2006 Mark D Lew wrote:
On Oct 16, 2006, at 4:27 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
There are hand-engraved scores where font width changes occur. I first
noticed these many years ago when I was a pre-composer working in a public
library, looking at scores I couldn't read. I saw operas where the letters
were narrower on some words, and sometimes even turned vertical with common
short words. (As a kid I'd also noticed how newspapers sometimes spaced
letters in individual words further apart to justify lines of text. I
must've been a stranger kid than I remember.)
Ah! Sign of a true type-geek. I sometimes forget what a type-geek I am because I have a brother and a good friend who are two of the top professional type-geeks in the country, and I pale in comparison to them.
Did you ever know that this kind of word spacing is only done in British
or American (or other Anglo-Saxon) Newspapers, never in German papers,
and to my knowledge also never in French papers?
I never worked out why...
Johannes, another type-geek...
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