Some 5 or 10 years ago, the Philadelphia Inquirer decided to throw
out the stylebook as far as hyphenation is concerned, and now lets its
computer break words wherever it damn well wants, resulting in such
horrors as
thoroug-
hly.
--But very nice spacing.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
On Oct 18, 2006, at 11:13 AM, John Howell wrote:
At 8:07 AM +0200 10/18/06, dc wrote:
Johannes Gebauer écrit:
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...
I might add that it is quite disturbing for a (continental) European
eye. I don't think many European music publishers would accept this.
It's quite disturbing for a U.S. eye, as far as that goes, stopping me
dead in my tracks to figure out just what that silly looking word is.
Might be an artifact of using columns too narrow for the font,
especially when the column is further narrowed by a graphic. Just
plain ugly!
What do the German newspapers do, not justify both left and right?
John
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