Pressed for Space: The Effects of Justification and the Printing Process on Fifteenth-Century Orthography.
- Author / Editor
- Shute, Rosie.
Pressed for Space: The Effects of Justification and the Printing Process on Fifteenth-Century Orthography.
- Published
- English Studies 98 (2017): 262-82.
- Description
- Analyzes parallel sections of text from William Caxton's two editions of CT set by the same compositor—Mel and ParsT, NPT and ManT—comparing practices in prose tales and verse tales, and also comparing the practices of the compositor of Richard Pynson's "Reynard the Fox." The tabulated data show that the compositors either broke words over lines, abbreviated words, or altered spaces between words in order to achieve justification; they did not adjust spelling in order to do so.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
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