- From: Brad Kemper <brkemper@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 21:42:52 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
When I learned typography, back in the day, hanging punctuation (as described by Daniel) was part of the craft of creating fine typography, even here in the U.S. I don't see it so much these days (since the dawn of desktop publishing) in the type of books or other publications I typically read, but I think that is more due to quick and expedient publishing than anything else. That, and the fact that Adobe InDesign was the first widely-deployed page design program that could do them easily and automatically, and it is only a few years old. But I've never heard of limiting the hanging punctuation to just the first or last line before. On Oct 9, 2007, at 6:53 PM, fantasai wrote: > > Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: >> fantasai wrote: >>> I haven't seen an equivalent demand for hanging other punctuation >>> at the >>> start or end of every line. This could be because I haven't run >>> across >>> the right publications, or it could be because it's not as >>> common, and >>> therefore not as important for us to add to CSS at this point in >>> time. >> When you say ‘Western’ you apparently mean American and British. >> As I said, it is common in Norwegian newspapers and books TODAY. >> I know I have seen hanging parentheses, brackets, and hyphen and >> dashes. We use «guillemets» for quotation marks and those are >> almost always hanging. Norwegian typography is derived from early >> 1900 German and French typography. You will probably find left >> hanging punctuation in those languages as well. > > Well, I'll readily admit that my Norwegian collection is weak: I only > have a small book of poetry in Norwegian. But I do happen to have some > books in French from various publishers. Seven different publishers to > be exact, and one of the books was published in 1925. None of them > exhibit > hanging-punctuation of the kind you describe (or of any kind, > actually). > > I've also looked at some of the scans of Norwegian newspapers > available > on the Web, and none of those demonstrate the use of hanging- > punctuation > either... > > So if you have access to a scanner or a digital camera, it would > help if > you could post some of your examples. You can send them to www- > archive@w3.org: > the attachments will show up in the archives at > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/ > > ~fantasai >
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