Re: Suggestion to add "spacing between sentences" to CSS3 Line WD

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Shelby Moore wrote:
>>
>> Basically, in modern fonts, the period and space are sized so that
>> they cause the right amount of space to occur between sentences. (I
>> find even monospace fonts aree adequate in this respect now,
>> actually.) So the entire problem has already been solved -- by font
>> designers. We don't need to solve it in CSS. :-)
> 
> NO because the screen does not have enough resolution (yet).

Well, mine does. :-)


> Also because it is not the font designer's preference that should take
> priority of the user's preference.  That is why we have CSS style for
> things such as vertical alignments, etc..

The user picks the font.

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