Odd hyphenations

[imwitty]

QUOTE:
"Another possibility: their text layout bot applies rules rather than
using a dictionary.  (I doubt if a human hand touches newspaper
end-of-line decisions these days.)"
END QUOTE

Maybe you are right about Boston Globe.... I just worked for a much smaller
local newspaper, with human editors, proofreaders, and layout guys ...
different scale.



On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 6/17/2014 07:13 PM, imwitty wrote:
> >Another possibility: their page layout person was trying to squeeze and
> fit
> >that article in the available space, and used  that really weird
> >hyphenation, instead of tracking (i.e., reducing space between the
> letters)
> >without using some smaller size font.
>
> Another possibility: their text layout bot applies rules rather than
> using a dictionary.  (I doubt if a human hand touches newspaper
> end-of-line decisions these days.)
>
> Joel
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