On 18 Oct 2006 at 13:43, Andrew Stiller wrote: > 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.
I think this was more an artifact of early electronic typesetting systems used by some newspapers. The NY Times used to be pretty bad about this in the late 80s/early 90s, but I don't recall seeing it at all lately. At the time, I knew someone who worked there who blamed it on the typesetting program the Times used at the time. It was actually a bug, where the style rules were incorporated into the program, but for some reason were completely ignored by the software in some situations that couldn't be overriden easily (I forget the exact details). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
