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From:         Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>
Subject:      *response to old posting on orthography
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Status: R


Last month in the thread about orthography, Julian Pardoe said:
>This is really only a serious problem with fixed-width founts.  Looking
>at some text on my screen, I suspect that my eye wants to bind a {.i} to
>the preceding word unless I put two spaces before the {.}.  So, my eyes
>tend to resolve {mi'o .i} as {mi} {o.i}.

As long as you do not lose the apostrophe:  a text with "mi'o .i" is
identical in meaning to the same text with "mi'o.i"

lojbab