- From: Bruce Bailey <bbailey@clark.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:00:09 -0500
- To: "Pawan Vora" <pvora@uswest.com>, "Charles F. Munat" <coder@acnet.net>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I am always amused by the notion of trying to emulate a print document in html. Usually the results are quite sad. Since we are talking about a regular WAI contributor I will not be so quick to judgement! What are you doing for the drop caps? Monochrome GIFs of the letter with the letter as ALT text? I will confess that I was quite happy when I first came across a site that ended sentences with period-non-breaking-space-space. Finally, a legal technique for getting that extra space the way my typing instructor taught me! (I was, of course, hit with that "Duh -- why didn't I think of that" feeling.) I instantly found my pages much more readable. Can double-space between sentences (but not after abbreviations) be accomplished by CSS? Are any browsers (or word processor for that matter) smart enough to make this distinction? -----Original Message----- From: Pawan Vora <pvora@uswest.com> To: Charles F. Munat <coder@acnet.net> Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 6:19 PM Subject: Re: h1, h2, etc. >Hi Charles, > >> I have the same problem with P tags. I've been using DIV >> with BR tags to avoid P tags because I don't want the spaces >> above and below. I am trying to achieve a look in which the >> first paragraph has a drop cap and no indent, and subsequent >> paragraphs have a first line indent, the way it is normally >> done in print. The "block" format gets old. > >You can get the indents... but it's not considered "good" html code. >Here are two different ways: > >1. starting a paragraph with <DD> >2. starting the paragraph with a bunch of 's ... so you can do > This is my second paragraph. > >Of course, the third option is to try the "single-pixel" gif trick.... >but, that's not good design either! > >Pawan... >-- >Pawan R. Vora >U S WEST Communications >pvora@uswest.com >303-624-4235 >
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