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kccqzy 16 hours ago

I actually like the interpunct way better (which I first saw when I visited Italy and saw historical carvings): instead⸱of⸱putting⸱spaces⸱you⸱put⸱a⸱small⸱dot⸱between⸱words⸱instead.

Terr_ 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nowadays I only see/use the middle dot to cla⸱ri⸱fy syl⸱la⸱bles in lyr⸱ics.

rerdavies 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh, nice! I've been using '-'s, but I'm going to switch.

mrsvanwinkle 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love that better! I was also just in Italy recently and you made me double take this tablet hanging on a canopy in one of the peregrination churches and they ARE interpuncts but for names only

Maxatar 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I also prefer that and in fact I enable "visible whitespace" in every text editor that supports it, such as VS Code.

piskov 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why would you use visible noise for something that should be void

vntok 15 hours ago | parent [-]

Why should it be void?

piskov 15 hours ago | parent [-]

Look into this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_(negative_space)

vntok 4 hours ago | parent [-]

This is about the use of void in art, specifically the perception of beauty and care that comes from the artist taking time to focus the eye of the viewer onto particular zones.

It has nothing to do with text legibility.

dhosek 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is still the standard in setting Ethiopic text