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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (246)1/2/1998 8:47:00 PM
From: Bill Ulrich  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4711
 
Stuff at bottom of posts:

Strictly speaking, it's a device&#151nothing more than a device. In the printing world, additional letter-spacing is added to &#145all-caps&#146 instantiations to improve legibility. Here, where your browser font size is fixed, it doesn't really work, so it's an effect and rather trivial. I use it simply because I like it. That's it.

-MrB