On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 09:11:41AM -0500, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 11/08/2014 06:31 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Wasn't that just because of fixed width fonts? I believe that practice > > today is archaic and unnecessary. > > > > That was from an interesting book that I read, "The Mac is not a typewriter" > > > My sense from reading various sources is that things like this were > conventions that individual publishers would establish. One such > convention was following a sentence with an em space, so we're > traditionally talking about proportional fonts as printing typically > used. It was the advent of typewriters that translated this em space to > two monospaces. > > As often happens, conventions morph into rules, and I suppose you might > say that a convention at a particular publisher was in essence a rule, > except that over the years conventions are changed.
Thanks for the elucidation. :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
