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I think "rivers" are not the same. if the same as in edition of books in French, rivers are those unwanted "paths" your eye sees floating downwards inside the r
by gbog 10y ago
I think "rivers" are not the same. if the same as in edition of books in French, rivers are those unwanted "paths" your eye sees floating downwards inside the rectangle of words that makes a page. They come out of randomness, when whitespaces happen to draw a negative path. It has to be corrected by slightly modifying the whitespaces between some words. AFAIK this is done manually and is one reason for book edition to be done by humans.
In short, it has nothing to do with purposeful perfect vertical alignment in code.
- __jal 10y agoWhen I worked in magazine production (90s, California) we used the term for both whitespace and other patterns. Other patterns are a lot less common, because whitespace is the most common "character", but they happen.