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From: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re^2: ATM leaves *HUGE GAP* after italics!
Message-ID: <469@amanue.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 90 11:47:54 GMT
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wiseman@tellab5.TELLABS.COM (Jeff Wiseman) writes:

>This is curious. When you changed your font from an italic to plain style, was
>it before or after the space? In other words, is there such thing as an italic
>space?

Sure there's such a thing, and sure its width *could be* different from a
plain space, I guess; this was the first thing I checked.  No go.  Making sure
I had a plain space still left a huge gap.  In fact I really first noticed it
after I had a big space between an italic word and a plain text period at the
end of a sentence; there was *no space* between the word and the period.

Sigh.
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 Jim Rosenberg
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