On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:30:51 +0000, john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forgive me if this doesn't specifically relate to standards, but perhaps > it does. >
I'd file it under "best practices" myself. > I'm simply wondering about the grammatically-correct double space after > a period. For years, it's never mattered to me, but I have a client who > is a stickler for this sort of thing, and he asked if I could please add > the extra spaces in his site. > It's got absolutely nothing to do with grammar; as a couple other people have pointed out, it was a convention (and by no means a universal one) in the days of manual typesetting and is now quite outdated, yet for some reason primary-school teachers the world over continue to enforce it with maniacal intensity. See the following typophile.com thread for some lively discussion of the history of the convention and the many different ways in which it was (and wasn't) implemented: http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/27993.html?1078892522 If your client continues to insist on double spaces, I'd recommend quoting liberally from that discussion, as perhaps the opinions of professional typographers and typesetters will carry some weight. > What do you think? First of all, can this be done in CSS? Secondly, is > this even proper with (X)HTML documents? > You could play with 'whitespace', maybe, but it wouldn't be worth it. -- "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -- George Carlin ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
