Re: A proposed standard for CSS-controlled sentence spacing from Markus Ernst on 2013-01-13 (www-style@w3.org from January 2013)

From: Markus Ernst <derernst@gmx.ch>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:00:45 +0100
To: "Thomas A. Fine" <fine@head.cfa.harvard.edu>
CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <50F2AFFD.2020700@gmx.ch>

Am 13.01.2013 08:54 schrieb Thomas A. Fine:
> 1. A generic spacing parameter to apply to inline elements.  NOT the box
> model, as I don't think it's appropriate to extend that.  But rather
> something that describes how inline elements relate to each other.  I've
> thought of some schemes but they're complicated, because what if two
> adjacent elements don't agree on how they should be spaced with each
> other.

This is why I advocate some variant of the margin property, which 
already handles different margins of adjacent elements well.

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