Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

On 09/07/2013 06:08 PM, jonathon wrote:

> I don't know what publishers you are looking at, but all of the
> publishers whose submission guidelines I've read, have requested files
> in MS Doc file format. (FWIW, I've read over the submission guidelines
> of over 100 publishers in the last year.)

You missed the context, which was the format publishers use for layout and 
which they asked contracted writers to submit in -- not the format they accept 
for submissions.

> > I think the avoidance of true small caps and old style numbering has more 
> > to  do with the practice of font creators, most of whom omit these features.

> That might be true for FLOSS font creators. It is not true for the
> foundries whose fonts are in the 4+ digit price range.

That's a very rareified category of fonts. Look at Adobe and other popular 
foundries, and you'll find that including small caps and old style numbering 
are rare enough that, when a typeface does include them, they are major 
selling points.

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