It certainly has nothing to do with grammar, it's more a presentation convention that has evolved with type. As for a solution, maybe the CSS property 'white-space: pre' would work?
Iain ------------------ Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] Sent: 23 January 2005 10:57 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] double space after period > -----Original Message----- > From: john [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 23 January 2005 9:31 PM > To: web standards group > Subject: [WSG] double space after period > > Forgive me if this doesn't specifically relate to standards, > but perhaps > it does. > > I'm simply wondering about the grammatically-correct double > space after > a period. I never heard of a double-space being gramatically correct. Then again, perhaps in other countries it is? Which would cause a problem, I guess. I couldn't think of any way to do it in css. The only way would be , but that's fairly annoying. Interesting problem. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
