Re: space from David Perrell on 1996-09-23 (www-html@w3.org from September 1996)

From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 03:12:18 -0700
To: "Carl Morris" <msftrncs@htcnet.com>, <www-html@w3.org>
Message-Id: <199609231016.DAA24511@serbia.it.earthlink.net>

Carl Morris:
> Thanks, I think I remember some of the HTML 3.0 space enities now,
> emsp, ensp ... etc...  They could be usefull ... if a particular
> browser I used supported the EM measurement at all...

If you have a word processor or DTP program that supports thinspace,
try typing in a few multi-sentence paragraphs double-wordspaced between
sentences. Put an abbr. here and there for the sake of confusion. Then
search and replace the double space characters with a single space
character and a thinspace. The space-thinspace combo makes sentences
easier to scan (and discern from abbreviations) than a single space but
less obtrusive than a double space or an emspace.

In the ISO entities, a thinspace is only 1/6 em. For HTML &emsp14;
might be better than &thinsp;.

I certainly hope the additional space entities are supported soon.

David Perrell

Received on Monday, 23 September 1996 07:14:35 UTC