October 19, 2001
The subject is typography on the web, and this is a double issue for your pleasure.
The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)
by Peter K Sheerin
More than you ever wanted to know about dashes, spaces, curly quotes, and other vagaries of online typography. HTML specs, grammatical rules, browser bugs and character encoding—it’s all here, in this famous and much-bookmarked ALA article.
Typography Matters
by Erin Kissane
It’s a style thing. It’s a usability thing. It’s a tricky thing for large content sites and a step up for independents. It’s typographically correct punctuation on the web, and ALA’s Erin Kissane makes the case for it.
