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Seems to be an excellent piece, Doug, part of a larger series of discussions
on MS study, and (the part I URLed) drawing on Parkes' _Pause and Effect_.
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I should probably note at this point that I was taught by Malcolm P, a very
long time ago.
Another book to mention in this context might be Paul Saenger's *Space
Between Words: the Origins of Silent Reading*.
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Crudely, to give you something to shoot down, would it be fair to say that
MS pointing reflects the spoken word, tends to mark larger or smaller blocks
of text, and thus, with the appearance of linear layout in early printed
texts, actually leads in the first instance to a *reduction of what we would
now think of as "punctuation"?
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Lineation appears before incunabula. That aside, the idea that punctuation
actually reduced to begin with as spatial notation took hold was rather
where I was heading. But with this major health warning: I _really_ don't
know enough to comment evidentially.
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