- From: Peter Kerr <p.kerr@auckland.ac.nz>
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:23:36 +1200
- To: Greg Noel <GregNoel@users.sourceforge.net>
- Cc: Amaya <www-amaya@w3.org>
On 5/09/2006, at 9:45 AM, Greg Noel wrote: > > Second, how do browsers deal with an em-space? Do they set it > wider than a standard space? Will they break there? If so, would > it be better to convert a typed space-space sequence into an em- > space? (I wouldn't think so, but it's worth asking.) > drifting OT ;-) I never used hot lead, but I understand that the space-space convention came from many years bad habits on mechanical typewriters which could not insert a "true" em-space. Some computer proportional fonts have added trailing space in the "period" character, to eliminate the need for two ASCII spaces at the end of a sentence. Now that we have a unicode em-space, and browsers that recognise it (and behave accordingly ;-) content providers who wish to use an em- space, should insert   or   or at least their editor eg. Amaya should optionally do it for them. I know that we can use xml:space="preserve", but there are many internal parts of the html engine (see RFCs) which require white space to be condensed to a single character, and real-world browsers let this behaviour leak out into the content area... --- Peter Kerr Snr Technician School of Music 6 Symonds St University of Auckland NZ
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