On 31/03/2004 14:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Kirk scripsit:
But, as Ken has just clarified, with NBSP Louis' neck may be stretched
rather uncomfortably, if not cut completely. Here is what I don't want
to see (fixed width font required):
Louis XVI was
guillotined in
1793.
This, however, is a matter of presentation rather than semantics, and as such
fitly belongs in the realm of presentational markup. In HTML, one might
specify <tt> </tt> to generate a fixed-width space.
I disagree. Surely there is something SEMANTICALLY different about the
space in "Louis XVI". One semantic difference is that it is
non-breaking. But another one is that these words should not be split
apart. An additional semantic distinction might be that they should be
treated as one word for the purposes of word breaking algorithms.
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