Gleb Hlebov to Anton Shepelev:
AS>> Brick text is a colloquial term for a paragraph written
AS>> in monospace font that is perfectly right-adjusted
AS>> without additional whitespace. In your article from
AS>> 2023-04-04 23:52 you wrote two of them:
GH> Well, there are doubled spaces between sentences.
This is sentence spacing -- traditionlly used in typewriting
and in the better typographical books. If you will remember
the book on witchcraft in Suspiria, it has sentence spacing,
too.
GH> But, yes -- not tripled or quadrupled or too wide
GH> stretches between words, like you'd expect in MS Word
GH> and such. And the bricks appear so neatly packed it's
GH> almost unreal. :-)
Must be harder than verse.
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