RE: VMs: Why VMs spaces behave like normal word spaces

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- GC <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mark Winn wrote:

> > Or that the pen holds just so much ink and
> > had to be redipped every 2 letters?
> 
> This was actually my first explanation for
> the half-spaces, but color imaging of some
> of the pages changed that veiw.  

Absolutely correct. A few years ago, when
several VMs 'fans' met in the UK, some colour
slides of VMs pages were projected on a screen
and the pen dipping could be observed clearly.
See 'minutes of the Teddington meeting'  at
Gabriel's web site.

> Unfortunately there is no consistent indication
> that reinking occurred at every half-space. I
> had to set that idea on the shelf and find another
> reason for half-spaces.

How about the 'human variability' factor as I
suggested above?
There really aren't any half spaces. There are
lots of spaces which are hard to judge but they
don't have a consistent size which is half the
normal word space. Even the normal word spaces
and the character spaces vary in width throughout
the MS, which is also quite normal since it was
done by a human being, not a machine.

Cheers, Rene

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