Re: Again Sp after Per

• Mail folder: WWW Talk Jul-Oct 1993
• Next message: Per Hedbor: "Graphics in Xmosaic"
• Previous message: Terry Allen: "Again Sp after Per"

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 10:42:11 -0500
Message-id: <9307061542.AA05014@newton.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
From: kchang@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Kenneth Chang)
X-Sender: kchang@newton.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Again Sp after Per
Status: RO

>I asked a similar question on comp.text.sgml, and got a good
>suggestion from Anders Thulin:  if you want to maintain the
>traditional convention of more space after a period that ends
>a sentence, tag the abbreviations <ABBREV>U.N.</ABBREV>
>and let the browser or formatter do the right thing.

This is a LOT more work than I want to have to deal with for
something almost no one will notice.

>I would be happy to settle for frenchspacing for WWW, at least for
>now.  Or we could get into the question of what spacing should
>follow a colon . . .

Frenchspace, frenchspace, frenchspace!

Well, now that everyone knows my opinion about that, how about
hyphens, em dashes and en dashes? It should be

-   = hyphen
--  = en dash
--- = em dash

(Or is this already fixed in HTML+?)

--ken chang
  NCSA Publications