Re: SP or emsp

montulli@stat1.cc.ukans.edu (Lou Montulli)

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From: montulli@stat1.cc.ukans.edu (Lou Montulli)
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Subject: Re: SP or emsp
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 93 22:12:12 CST
In-reply-to: <199311060045.AA04697@rock.west.ora.com>; from "Terry Allen" at Nov 5, 93 4:45 pm
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> 
> One of the items in the HTML+ spec that would really help WWW typographers
> is the SP element, which might alternately be specified as ISO 8879
> Publishing Entities &emsp;.  Do browser developers have any preference
> on this point, and would this em-space element or entity be easy
> to implement?
> 
> Dave, did you intend something different by SP than &emsp; or &ensp;?
> 
> As an example of where it would be useful, I'd like to remove the 
> dashes in the top-level TOC of the online Whole Internet Catalog,
> which are there now to get some separation between the in-line hotlinks
> (design suggestions welcome).
> 
I had thought we were going to have &emsp and &ensp.  But I
don't really care since I will be implementing them the same :)

:lou
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