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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Space
Message-ID: <8007@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 2 Jun 88 19:14:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.8007
References: <4292@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4292@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>How big should a space be ?

That depends on the alignment requirements for the text being typeset
and often varies from line to line.  For unaligned text you should
probably use an en-space between words, but it depends on the font.