> Am 2020-01-17 um 09:41 schrieb Thomas Savary :
>
> Hraban :
> > Since the current CG Journal is still "in progress", another article is
> > welcome!
>
> Thank you for this offer. As I don’t like half-measures, I really want to do
> it well, so I’m going to need a lot of time to collect histo
Hraban :
> Since the current CG Journal is still "in progress", another article is
> welcome!
Thank you for this offer. As I don’t like half-measures, I really want to do it
well, so I’m going to need a lot of time to collect historical as well as
recent examples, quotations, etc. and to write t
Hans :
> never seen them [thin spaces] in dutch ...
Example from a book published in Haarlem, 1838, “Gedichten van Nicolaas Beets”
— you will even see thin spaces before commas, like in France in the 17th-18th
century.
https://books.google.fr/books?
id=s1BUcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&sour
> Am 2020-01-15 um 16:10 schrieb Thomas Savary :
>
> Exactly. And this is precisely the thin space still required in French
> publications. The main disagreement among French typographs (about twenty
> years ago, at least) was about the fixed vs relative width of this thin space
> : put in Te
Arthur :
> I think it happened at about the same time for English. Before that
> it was pretty universal. See
> https://archive.org/details/worksbenjaminfr06spargoog/page/n12 for just one
> example.
>
> (The thin space in that example is really thin! -- but it’s definitely
> there)
Exactly.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 11:29:35AM +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Dutch typesetting had some rules for thin spaces in a transition period from
> full spaces (early) to no spaces (modern).
>
> Much of this change happened in the (late) 19th century, so I guess it had
> more to do with linotype/mo
> On 15 Jan 2020, at 10:15, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> By the way, thin spaces are not specific to French typography, historically
>> speaking, since they seem to have been used everywhere in Europe for
>> centuries — at least in England, Belgium, Germany and Italy (probably in the
>> Netherland
On 1/14/2020 10:58 PM, Joseph wrote:
Hello,
With LMTX (MkIV is fine) characterspacing (I use frenchpunctuation) is
not applied sometimes (ie no spacing before colon for example) in some
parts of the text. Unfortunately so far I cannot provide a MWE so I am
wondering if there is a way to trace
On 1/14/2020 11:25 PM, Thomas Savary wrote:
Hello, dear list !
Joseph :
> With LMTX (MkIV is fine) characterspacing (I use frenchpunctuation)
is not
> applied sometimes (ie no spacing before colon for example) in some
parts of
Character-spacing for French punctuation marks is incorrect
Hello, dear list !
Joseph :
> With LMTX (MkIV is fine) characterspacing (I use frenchpunctuation) is not
> applied sometimes (ie no spacing before colon for example) in some parts of
Character-spacing for French punctuation marks is incorrect in MkIV anyway :
the “thin” spaces are much too wide.
Joseph schrieb am 14.01.2020 um 22:58:
Hello,
With LMTX (MkIV is fine) characterspacing (I use frenchpunctuation) is
not applied sometimes (ie no spacing before colon for example) in some
parts of the text. Unfortunately so far I cannot provide a MWE so I am
wondering if there is a way to tr
Hello, With LMTX (MkIV is fine) characterspacing (I use frenchpunctuation) is not applied sometimes (ie no spacing before colon for example) in some parts of the text. Unfortunately so far I cannot provide a MWE so I am wondering if there is a way to trace this to hopefully figure out what the prob
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