- From: Etan Wexler <ewexler@stickdog.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:53:59 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
Alexander Savenkov wrote to <mailto:www-style@w3.org> on 6 August 2004
in "Re: [css4-text] 'text-autospace' and French guillemets"
(<mid:1363665531.20040806124737@xmlhack.ru>):
> Aren't these to be solved with typesetting?
Do you mean using characters to produce certain glyphs? I can't answer
the question because I don't understand it.
> I'm not asking to include a special CSS property to allow thinner
> space between inline list items: 1, 2, 3.
Presumably, each list item is marked up, so margin or padding
properties would be appropriate. Yes?
Say that I have a fragment of text:
«foo»
In HTML and in XHTML, I can mark that up as
<span class="Pi">«</span>foo<span class="Pf">»</span>
...and apply the CSS
span.Pi { margin-right: 0.2ex; }
span.Pf { margin-left: 0.2ex; }
Okay, so that's one solution. Or semi-solution. But it is cumbersome
and doesn't work for markup languages which lack a "span"-like element
type.
--
Etan Wexler.
Received on Saturday, 7 August 2004 17:56:15 UTC