On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:15:28 -0700 Dave Kemper <saint.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/18/13, Tadziu Hoffmann <hoffm...@usm.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: > > In the original troff (according to the Troff User's Manual) > > a space was nominally 1/3 em and a thinspace was 1/6 em, > > thus half a normal space. In groff's TR font, a space > > is nominally 1/4 em, but a thinspace is still only 1/6 em. > > Isn't that strange? > > I thought of this two-month-old post when I found > http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324, a lengthy article that > exhaustively documents that until the early to mid 20th century, > standard typesetting practice was to put more space between sentences > than between words. http://xkcd.com/1285/ Published 2013-11-01, in eerie anticipation of Tadziu's post. --jkl
