RE: Re[2]: Fixed Width Spaces (was: Printing and Displaying Depen dentVowels)

From: Mike Ayers ([email protected])
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 17:01:34 EST

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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf Of Alexander Savenkov
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:25 AM

> That is arguable. An aural user agent could pronounce "1, 2, 3" a bit
> different from "1, 2, 3" if there is a (say) thin space between the
> digits in the latter case. It could pronounce it quicker, for example.

It *could* do that, but, frankly, that would be a bad idea. Speech
synthesis devices have enough trouble with plain text as it is - adding
special interpretation for neo-markup characters would just make things
worse. This belongs in the realm of (surprise!) markup.

This seems to be international let's-merge-markup-into-plaintext
month.

/|/|ike

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