Monday, January 25, 2016
Proofreaders adrift
Proofreaders have drifted away from hot-lead traditions.
I thought at first this was the Cyrillic variant ћ but it's just a kern-collision.
This sideswipe would have been physically impossible in hot lead, and it's still improper, and still rare, in digital. An alert proofreader would have added a space.
A bit later: No, I shouldn't blame the proofreader. It's a badly designed font. Failed to account for the situation where you have italic chars at only one end of parens. If both parens had been switched to italic, the problem would have moved to the left paren, but would still be a problem.
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I thought at first this was the Cyrillic variant ћ but it's just a kern-collision.
This sideswipe would have been physically impossible in hot lead, and it's still improper, and still rare, in digital. An alert proofreader would have added a space.
A bit later: No, I shouldn't blame the proofreader. It's a badly designed font. Failed to account for the situation where you have italic chars at only one end of parens. If both parens had been switched to italic, the problem would have moved to the left paren, but would still be a problem.
¶ 4:04 AM
