On 10/15/06, Designer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chris Williams wrote:
> The Chicago manual, the latest Strunk and White editions, and many
> others, still use it.  Just because a random entry in Wikipedia and the
> AP don't do it, doesn't mean it's not right...  And browsers don't do it
> because it's easier to collapse all spaces, not because it's right.

Just a thought on this... I agree, with print, but think perhaps the
web works differently. There's no different end-of-sentence character,
and UAs aren't designed to render some spaces larger than others. (I
habitually press Ctrl + . at the end of sentences from spending too
much time in LyX and wish there were an equivalent way to do things
with HTML, but alas I think it's not to be).

You could go further and invent your own schema with a <s> element for
sentences if you care that much... but personally I think this is
something more for print and perhaps not suited to appropriation given
the tools we do/don't have.

I doubt that anyone can spot an italicised period. .  :-) !

Why not just unitalicise the <i> tag? Unless you're using it where you
actually need italics, of course... but that doesn't happen because
you use CSS and semantic markup for that, right? ;-)

--
Joshua Street

http://joahua.com/blog/
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