- From: John Lewis <lewi0371@mrs.umn.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 05:01:00 -0600
- To: www-style@w3.org
Shelby wrote on Friday, December 20, 2002 at 5:43:20 PM: > My vote is wait for sentence parsing in UA. > [...] > If you agree, then the next challenge is coming up with a good model > for sentence spacing. I guess I agree, but I'm not so sure it isn't all a pipe dream. Assuming for a minute it isn't, one solution seems natural to me: A ::sentence pseudo-element, similar to ::first-line and ::first-letter. Spaces between sentences could be accomplished with padding-right or generated content via ::after. If it's required in other languages (I only speak English), ::before or padding-left could also be used. With padding the spaces won't be copied and it will be impossible to mimic exact double spacing, since you have to know what typeface is being used to determine how wide its space glyph is. Generated content seems better to me (but they should both be allowed, along with other appropriate properties). -- John
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