Bill:

The reason no one has been given credit is because no one knows who this person was. Early printing presses had provisions for spaces between words thanks to Maynard and Noel Spaes, who worked for Johannes Gutenburg. Maynard insisted that a wide space between words was appropriate because then there wasn't any doubt that there actually was a space. Noel believed that a small space was preferable because in the long run it ended up using less paper, which was a very valuable commodity.

So in typographical circles there has been considerable debate over the centuries about the merits of the M. Spaes argument versus the N. Spaes argument.

TEd, who can italic like it is, though some consider him a pica for making such a bad pun. Actually, we've been through this series of puns this past twelvemonth, so I won't go any further.




TEd