Re: lynx-dev LYNX: "&#151": em-dash?

[pg]

In a recent note, brian j. pardy said:

> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 19:16:56 -0700
> 
> > > This code:  who—he's my boss—who runs
> >  
> > you're right, it should be ` -- ': that's correct secretarial style.
> > 
> > and while we're on it, Lynx should write  2  spaces after a full stop:
> > that's also professional secretarial practice.
> 
> I don't think that lynx should be in the business of correcting
> punctuational errors/preferences when it comes to text presented on the
> web -- I'd much prefer to leave that to the whim of the author.
> 
This isn't correcting errors or overriding preferences; these are
two legitimate technical issues: the former concerns presentation of
a conventionally wide character in a monospaced display; the latter
is not overriding the author's preference -- the standard requires
that sequences of spaces be treated as a single space on unpreformatted
text input, but leaves open the presentation of sentence breaks.

Practically, there's good reason to avoid 2 spaces after a full stop,
to avoid the jarring "Dr.  Smith" effect.  You can't count on
                         ^^
the author's using an NBSP here.

-- gil