From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Mar 31 2004 - 18:45:16 EST
On 31/03/2004 14:25, jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:
>Peter Kirk scripsit:
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>>But, as Ken has just clarified, with NBSP Louis' neck may be stretched
>>rather uncomfortably, if not cut completely. Here is what I don't want
>>to see (fixed width font required):
>>
>>Louis XVI was
>>guillotined in
>>1793.
>>
>>
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>This, however, is a matter of presentation rather than semantics, and as such
>fitly belongs in the realm of presentational markup. In HTML, one might
>specify <tt> </tt> to generate a fixed-width space.
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I disagree. Surely there is something SEMANTICALLY different about the
space in "Louis XVI". One semantic difference is that it is
non-breaking. But another one is that these words should not be split
apart. An additional semantic distinction might be that they should be
treated as one word for the purposes of word breaking algorithms.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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