Spacing in Typeset and Other Forms of Writing
The practice of writing and recording is researched to have dated back as far as 3400 and 3300 BC, to cuneiform written on clay tablets in ancient Mesopotamia. Sumerians used a reed stylus to make impressions in wet clay creating wedge-shaped marks for which they had an alphabet system. [1] With the invention of early movable type in the second century AD by Bi Sheng from Yingshan, Hubei, China and the first printing press by Johannes Gutenberg from Mainz, Germany in 1450, a system arose for copying and distributing texts more easily. [2] Movable type and printing heavily influenced the style and manner with which text was printed onto a substrate.
Reason for Spacing
Italics use double quotation marks
Bold uses triple quotation marks
Spacing in Typesetting
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Outside links use single brackets Stanford University Press book
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Modern Spacing Rules
References
- ↑ Clayton, Ewan. “Where Did Writing Begin?” The British Library, The British Library, 9 Apr. 2019, www.bl.uk/history-of-writing/articles/where-did-writing-begin.
- ↑ History.com Editors. “Printing Press.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 7 May 2018, www.history.com/topics/inventions/printing-press.
- ↑ Plumb, Andrew. “Gutenberg Press 3.” Creative Commons, Creative Commons, 1 Apr. 2006, search.creativecommons.org/photos/7abcb1de-3ef0-4a6b-ad7a-b521c1deb423.