On 2010-02-12 Ann Randall wrote: > And yes, you can read about the APA's return to two spaces at > the end of sentences at > http://www.apastyle.org/manual/whats-new.aspx Scroll down just > below the "Chapter 4" subheading. >
Do they really expect double-spaces between sentences to be emulated in HTML/CSS, or just to be present in the plaintext source? Seems a bit daft to me! There is of course the possibility that they aren't aware that HTML renderers squash horizontal whitespace and why they should do so. Good contemporary typographic practice is not to stuff extra spacing between sentences. See p. 28-30 of Bringhurst, Robert. The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 3.0. [Point Roberts Wash.]: Hartley & Marks, Publishers, 2004. I hasten to add that I learned to apply the practice on the typewriter, and I still think it does add some clarity when reading text in a monowidth font, but in text set or rendered in a proportional font it's just disturbing. For most languages it was never used in printing. On-topically: the only way to emulate double spaces with CSS which I can think of would be to wrap every sentence in a <span class="sentence"> and style that with a 2em right padding. Any other? In HTML you can put plus an ordinary space after each sentence, but that's awfully presentational markup. /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le soleil ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*, c'est qu'elles meurent." (Victor Hugo) ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
