- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:02:40 +0100
- To: "Thomas A. Fine" <fine@head.cfa.harvard.edu>
- Cc: Lee Kowalkowski <lee.kowalkowski@googlemail.com>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Thomas A. Fine, Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:46:20 -0500: > On 12/6/12 5:31 AM, Lee Kowalkowski wrote: >> Being interested in semantics doesn't always mean tags. There would be >> nothing wrong with using a HTML entity that represented sentence >> spacing, except there'd need to be a character in the character set >> specifically for it. There are also many spaces in unicode.[1] Would EN SPACE be about right? [2] But instead of a dedicated space character, one could introduce a dedicated "end of sentence full stop character". Such a thing would also solve the problem that the FULL STOP character in many languages frequently occurs in the middle of sentences. (E.g. in Norwegian, we write 13.30 and not 13:30 and "1." and not "1st".) For such a full stop character, then software could take care of making the end-of-sentence-space wider than the normal space. (Perhaps simply using the normal variable width SPACE character (U+0020)?[3]) ... > There's nothing in Unicode that I've found that would > serve this purpose, Characters continue to be added to Unicode, but the bar is probably high there as well. > and if there were, it's unclear to me if > attaching CSS behavior to a particular entity is a reasonable > approach. Still, it's an interesting notion and if it's easy or > possible to create an entity to mark sentences I would be willing to > consider that as a reasonable solution. A new full stop character would interest me more. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_(punctuation)#Spaces_in_Unicode [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_(punctuation)#Variable-width_general-purpose_space http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1996 -- leif halvard silli
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