On Tue, Dec 22, 2020, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > For those who have not read it yet: the original > > http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324 > > has unfortunately vanished, but I have saved a copy: > > http://www.usm.uni-muenchen.de/~hoffmann/roff/tmp/typographyspacing.pdf
Thank you! I hadn't read it, and I loved it. Basically, everything that was passed on to me when I apprenticed as a typesetter in a commercial shop lo, these many years ago: paragraph text benefits from sentences with a little more space between them than between words (the full em was considered a bit too old school). The amount of space was related to font, size, leading, and line length. When we switched to phototypesetting on Compugraphic 8400s (anybody remember those beautiful beasts?), we used the search/replace function to add "kern units" to spaces after EOS characters to achieve the effect. We'd do it in one pass, then give the galleys to the proofreader to catch the sentences beginning with capital T, V, W, or Y, which either needed no extra space or had to be brought back a tad. (There's something single-spacers never seem worried about, despite the obvious holes: tightening period-space-T/V/W/Y combinations. They could at least be consistent in their hatred of unequal word/sentence spacing!) -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca
