- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Date: 23 Sep 1996 10:35:35 +0100
- To: msftrncs@htcnet.com
- Cc: lee@piclab.com, www-html@w3.org
<SENTENCE>This is a sentence.<SENTENCE>A this is another...
^
The period is probably unnecessary, as it can be inferred from the
markup :-)
Anyway, I think the point stands ... "hinting" is not a good idea ...
while I can't stress it as a requirement, something that litterally
denotes that a larger space should be made would be more appropriate...
HTML 3.0 supposedly had something like this...
It would make more sense, as you describe, to say _why_ you want more
space, eg <city>Princeton<state>NJ<zip>08542</address>. Then the
formatting becomes trivial.
And I don't know about you, but my english teacher would have flunked
me for not including two space between sentences in any typed or
electronic written work... Seems to me its a requirement! :( (he'd
also require double spacing and etc...)
You've misunderstood the point: it's fine in typewritten work, or in
email read in fixed-pitch fonts. It's not meaningful in printers fonts
(on paper or screen).
///Peter
Received on Monday, 23 September 1996 05:34:41 UTC