[TUHS] Proliferation of book print styles

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Tue Jun 4 14:26:01 AEST 2024


On Mon, 3 Jun 2024, Ralph Corderoy wrote:

> Full justification is still often used.  No breaks around the start/stop 
> parenthetical em dash causes the very long ‘word’ to start the next 
> line; the line before becomes 40% space.  Sentences which start ‘I’ end 
> a line.  Or page.  Sans serif used so that ‘I’ is as thin as can be and 
> the font, to my eyes, generally lacks flow.

What he said...

And let's not even talk about hyphenating the-
rapist.

-- Dave


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