Double space after a period.

message from Liothar on 24 Jul 2004

According to my book 'Elements of Style', when writing a sentence I must
place two spaces after a period.

I use a text editor or Word to write text and then I copy paste it to DW.
The problem is that DW ignores double spaces and I must insert them
manually.

I have tried a search and replace in both text and source unsuccessfully,
for it always insert a ' ' at odd places.

Is there another trick to globally insert double spaces after a period at
the end of a sentence only, and not in tags, end of paragraphs, acronyms,
numbers, names or any odd place?

Michael Fesser replied to Liothar on 24 Jul 2004

.oO(Liothar)

Depends on the language.

Is it really necessary in your case? I doubt it (but I'm not a native
English speaker, so I might be wrong).

It's not DW, it's HTML that collapses the whitespace by default.

I wouldn't do that, only bloats the code. Additionally I've never seen
such things on websites, only in newsgroups from time to time.

Micha

Mad Dog replied to Liothar on 24 Jul 2004

"Elements of Style" is right if you're typing something. That's VERY
outdated since basically no one uses a typewriter. In typesetting (for
printing) they've never done that. It's one space. That's what people using
proportional fonts should do when using word processors or on web pages, and
so should you.

MD

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