Lachlan Hardy <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wednesday, February 09, 2005 1:34 PM said:
> john wrote: >> Forgive me if this doesn't specifically relate to standards, but >> perhaps it does. >> >> 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. >> >> What do you think? First of all, can this be done in CSS? >> Secondly, is this even proper with (X)HTML documents? I think it's lame. >From my understanding the usage of two spaces after a period was because of early typewriters that had very small spaces (the same could be said for certain fonts). Therefore two spaces were placed side-by-side to increase the distance between the period and the beginning of the next sentence. This whole thing is one of my pet peeves so take my harsh criticism of it with a grain of salt please. :) Chris. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
