Re: too small inter-word spacing

[Mark Summerfield]

On 2008-09-08, Joerg van den Hoff wrote:
> On Sep 08 2008 (Mon, 14:03), Martti Haukijärvi wrote:
> > 2008/9/5 Joerg van den Hoff <address@hidden>:
> > > recent documents: do you not see incidences of way too tight spacing
> > > between words? do you feel the spacing is on average a) optimal, b) to
> > > loose, c) to tight?
> >
> > Most of spacing is OK, but often (a couple of times in every page)
> > spacing is too tight. This is visible especially at the end of
> > sentences, dots being too close to next word. Perhaps this is problem
> > with those languages which have a lot of long words, like Finnish? In
> > English words are shorter and hyphenation seems not to be used so
> > routinely as in Finnish, for example.  Perhaps the hyphenation penalty
> > should be lowered for such languages.
> >
> > --
> > Martti Haukijärvi
>
> martii,
>
> thanks for responding. my assessment is similar to yours: spacing OK
> most of the time. but even here I think the spaces are frequently
> rather tight, i.e. generally compressed below the "optimal" standard
> width of a space. On the other hand, I seem to find _no_ obvious
> instances of significantly expanded spaces at all.

If you use em dashes---like this---with no whitespace, then you often
get large spaces.

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