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|  Message 4005  |
|  Anton Shepelev to Gleb Hlebov  |
|  Some issues from some books  |
|  27 Nov 23 13:41:16  |
 MSGID: 2:221/6.0 65648056 REPLY: 2:221/1.0 65646350 PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 3.0 20231126 NOTE: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-mingw32). CHRS: CP437 2 TZUTC: 0200 Gleb Hlebov to Anton Shepelev: AS>> Brick text is a colloquial term for a paragraph written AS>> in monospace font that is perfectly right-adjusted AS>> without additional whitespace. In your article from AS>> 2023-04-04 23:52 you wrote two of them: GH> Well, there are doubled spaces between sentences. This is sentence spacing -- traditionlly used in typewriting and in the better typographical books. If you will remember the book on witchcraft in Suspiria, it has sentence spacing, too. GH> But, yes -- not tripled or quadrupled or too wide GH> stretches between words, like you'd expect in MS Word GH> and such. And the bricks appear so neatly packed it's GH> almost unreal. :-) Must be harder than verse. --- * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0) SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 123/131 SEEN-BY: 129/305 153/7715 154/10 214/22 218/0 1 215 601 700 720 840 SEEN-BY: 218/850 860 870 880 930 221/1 6 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 SEEN-BY: 229/113 206 307 317 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120 266/512 SEEN-BY: 282/1038 291/111 301/1 113 320/219 322/757 335/364 341/66 SEEN-BY: 341/234 342/200 396/45 460/58 712/848 5020/400 1042 5075/35 PATH: 221/6 301/1 218/700 229/426 |
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