Re: A proposed standard for CSS-controlled sentence spacing

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Markus Ernst <derernst@gmx.ch> wrote:
> Am 10.01.2013 22:29 schrieb Tab Atkins Jr.:
>> I'm with Hixie for now, in the corresponding thread you've raised in
>> WHATWG about adding a <sentence> tag to HTML.  This doesn't seem to be
>> particularly useful, existing markup can handle it,
>
> <span class="sentence">I am a sentence.</span>
>
> .sentence { margin-right: 0.5em; }
>
> This has the downside that it won't justify when the end of the sentence
> happens to be at the right margin. I am not perfectly familiar with all
> aspects of CSS3, so forgive me if I am wrong, but I don't see how Thomas'
> task could be handled with existing markup.

Perhaps instead do:

.sentence:not(:last-child) { margin-right: .5em; }

That way, if it's the last element in it's container, it won't have
the margin and will be able to justify.

~TJ