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Originally Posted by RobertDDL
It is possible -- within each line, one or two spaces would still be discernible. It has been done, only it has gone out of fashion -- one example that I happen to know are Burton's 16 volumes of "1001 Nights," you find the scans on http://www.burtoniana.org/books/1885-Arabian%20Nights/. I've seen it in 19th century German books, too, but in German it is not used even with monospaced/ragged-margin texts nowadays. |
Punctuation styles change with time, too. For example, in English it used to be the case (in the 19th century, for example) that punctuation marks such as ";" and ":" had a space both before and after them, whereas now the space before the punctuation has disappeared. It is, however, still present in modern French.