on 02/11/2006 19:24 Nick Roper said the following:
A client has requested that the content on their site has two spaces between the end of one sentence and the start of the next.
Have they said why? Or indicated how big a unit a single space is (serious question)?
If they're looking to improve readability, there are far more significant issues that they should be considering - such as what font type is being used, as well as line-height letter-spacing and word-spacing. Not to mention that actual construction of the content itself.
Adding an extra space to the end of each sentence hasn't been shown to improve readability in any study I've read and might actually impede reading in the same way that justified text can do.
We could do it by using non-breaking spaces, but is there a better way of achieving this - possibly with CSS?
Nothing immediately springs to my mind. (X)HTML simply doesn't have a mechanisem for indicating where one sentence starts and another begins within a single paragraph.
Enclose every sentence in a span and then style the span? It would be extremely tedious and would bloat the markup terribly (and unnecessarily, in my opinion).
And for what benefit? Mel ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
