[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: hanging punctuation
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: hanging punctuation |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:05:33 -0400 |
> > > Set the right margin to 72 characters and do C-u M-q:
> > >
> > > The file found in "include/freetype/config/ftoption.h" contains a list
> > > of commented configuration macros that can be toggled by developers to
> > > indicate which features should be active in their build of the library.
> > >
> > > Note the hanging final full stop. Basically, this is very nice
> > > from a typographical point of view, nevertheless, it is a bug
> > > since you can replace the `.' with any other character and it
> > > still sticks out one character.
> >
> > When reporting such bugs it is immensely useful if you can tell us
> > whether or not the bug that was present in older versions and if so
> > which one is the latest one you know worked correctly.
>
> I've no idea, sorry. I believe that this behaviour is rather recent
> -- at least, I've never noticed it before, and I'm quite sensitive to
> such things.
This is much better than nothing. Thank you,
Stefan