Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes (quoting Richard Stevens): > The last line of a right hand page should not end with a hyphen. This > has been a style rule for many years, yet it is amazing that most word > processors do not do this! I just smile when I pick up a book produced > with something like Frame and you immediately find these errors.
I know this is off topic, but I was genuinely interested by this quote. I'd like to know a little more about Stevens's assertion. Is it widely acknowledged by typograhers? Randomly pulling a few books off my shelf, I found in each one examples of this error, even in older books, and even in a German text printed in 1884. I can see the importance of the principle for readability, but if so many publishers (current and past) ignore it, then I wonder what force it has. Dan -- _______________________________ /\ \ \_| Dan Griswold | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | __________________________|_ \_/____________________________/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
