[projectaon] Re: 01hh Nitty Gritty
- From: "Jonathan Blake" <blake.jon@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:28:11 -0700
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jonathan Blake wrote:
>> The space is intentional to set it apart from the text. If we were
>> going to change house style, I would favor adding another space at the
>> beginning of the ellipsis, not removing the last one.
>
> My personal preference would be to remove the trailing space; however, as a
> compromise, I think we should leave things as they are because a preceding
> space as well would just look horrible! :-p
>
> It's not so obvious where we left-align the text, but with fully justified
> text the space between the ellipsis and the following word is sometimes
> large, which looks ugly. This clearly doesn't affect the single-page
> versions. Admittedly, the ellipsis character in Verdana seems much too
> narrow when compared to the letters. Ditto for Zapf Elliptical BT. Swings
> and roundabouts, I suppose.
I'm not sure removing the space would improve things in justified
text. I'm going to try adding thin spaces surrounding the ellipsis in
the next generated version. We'll see how it looks.
--
Jon
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