From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package: kill pointless text justification
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:02:37 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5538288D.3090308@zacarias.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150422223204.GG4069@free.fr>
On 04/22/2015 07:32 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Well, it's not entirely incorrect.
>
> English typography used to require there is a double-space (or two word
> spaces, can't remeber the typographic name) between the full-stop and
> the next sentence:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop#Spacing_after_a_full_stop
>
> However, this usage has been gradually declining in favour of a single
> space, but is till widely used, especially when submitting manuscripts.
>
> Well, except for us Froggies, who only always used single-spacing. ;-)
Actually it's related to scribes in a historical context:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment#History
It was one of the tricks used to keep all the lines of the same length
(visually).
Regards.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-22 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-22 22:14 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package: kill pointless text justification Gustavo Zacarias
2015-04-22 22:26 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-04-22 22:32 ` Yann E. MORIN
2015-04-22 23:02 ` Gustavo Zacarias [this message]
2015-04-23 13:53 ` Danomi Manchego
2015-04-23 7:47 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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