- From: (wrong string) äper <christoph.paeper@tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:50:38 +0100
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
- Cc: "Shelby Moore" <shelby@coolpage.com>
Shelby Moore: > > Suggest the CSS3 deal with the controversy over whether to use a double or > single space between sentences: Why not   (or is it  )? You are setting most other spaces yourself, too. > However, I am reasonably confident this issue has not been handled yet AFAICS yes. > Suggest CSS3 specify the spacing between sentences. The idea isn't all that bad, but sentences are not marked up. At least not in HTML. How do you automatically distinguish between a dot after a sentence and one after an abbreviation (in a language without <abbr/>) or one after an ordinal number? > Ideally this setting > would be (non-linearly?) proportional to the resolution of the media, Wouldn't it be proportional to the font-size? Like em and en spaces are. > My practical advice (http://coolpagehelp.com/developer4.html) to use > double space, is based on the lack of reliable way to insure that sentences > will be scannable (quickly delimited by eye) on all ranges of devices. Double space after "." looks as wrong as no spaces around em/en dashes or the 7 bit equivalent "--". That's from a German POV where other typography laws apply. Christoph Päper
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