First, the technical answer...I was wondering if anyone knows of an appropriate way to increase or decrease sentence-spacing - for which there is no property I can find in the CSS2 spec. By this, I mean to simulate the effect of double-spacing after a period, which some people in my company insist on doing - even after reading the following informative article:
Singlespace vs. Double Space http://www.webword.com/reports/period.html
There is nothing in HTML or CSS that recognizes a sentence as a basic unit. Blocks, yes. Paragraphs, yes. Sentences, no. Without that basic level of parsing, the answer is going to be very difficult to implement. One -could- use the content: attribute to add an extra space, like this. (untested)
.sentence {
content: " ";
display: inline; }Of course, this would mean wrappting every sentence in a <div> just to get the class attached.
ref: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#propdef-content
Then, an accessibility concern...
Those "rivers of white" represent a significant cognitive understanding problem for people with Meares-Irlen Syndrome (scotopic sensitivity). Stick with one space after a period.
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Bob Easton
Accessibility Matters: http://access-matters.com
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