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It's curious that 'c' and 'u' are in such large compartments, especially compared to 'e' and 't'
by whartung 3y ago
It's curious that 'c' and 'u' are in such large compartments, especially compared to 'e' and 't'
- jcranmer 3y agoFrom the picture linked in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36990987 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36990987, it's an artifacting of Wikipedia's table layout. It looks like you should count all of the cells in the top row as being equal width, save the 'e' box's extension into the top row, which is two cells wide. So 'c'/'m'/'u' are the same size as 'd'/'n'/'t' and 'h'/3-em spaces, 'i'/'o'/'a', 's'/'r', and 2-3em quads, with 'e' being larger by the size of 2 digit spaces.
- adrianmonk 3y agoSeems like the Wikipedia illustration is not to scale. They've just used an HTML table and let it determine the sizes. If you look at some photos, the "m" compartment isn't actually wider than the others. See https://reflexletterpress.com/updated-info-sheets-typesetting-and-california-job-case/ https://reflexletterpress.com/updated-info-sheets-typesettin... and https://amusetoibien.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/california-job-case/ https://amusetoibien.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/california-job... .