Bonnie Granat wrote:

> It's hard to believe that by 2006 there has been no manner of ensuring that
> extra space in inserted after an italicized word in HTML text.

I think this is about presentation of content, and IMHO it's not a 
property of a markup or stylesheet language but a responsibility of the 
renderer.

-- 
Johannes Koch
In te domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
                             (Te Deum, 4th cent.)