Forum - View topicDouble Spaces
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Dargonxtc
 Posts: 4463 Location: Nc5xd7+ スターダストの海洋 |
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Since my college days I have always double spaced after the period. In fact I still do it with out really knowing it. But when I submit my post it always makes it single spaced after the period. I find it easier to read with the double space. I just wanted to know the reason behind this. Is it because it takes up more space or something?
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Tony K.
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Sure  . I mean, some of the posts on these forums get long enough as it is, like these. It doesn't really bother me, though. It's just the way things are, I suppose.
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
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In HTML and phpBB, no matter how many "normal space" you have in a paragraph of text, they will be reduced to one by the system, unless you change them to non-breaking space (NBSP). See here for more info.
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Dargonxtc
Posts: 4463 Location: Nc5xd7+ スターダストの海洋 |
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Thanks. I guess it would be a real pain in the ass to work around something like that. I can't even figure out what the syntax would be. I know it is   or or < > and < > (with respective /)but I can't seem to get it to work right. Anyway thanks for the info, I didn't know it was something that deeply encoded. I figured you guys just had an on/off switch or something, and I was trying to flip the switch. But it would be way to complicated to work around.
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10539 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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The Internet has effectively killed paragraph indents because html doesn't support it.
There's no *easy*, *clean* way to add an indent. If you take a look at an online article in Time Magazine you'll notice that there's no indent. But if you pick up a print copy of time, there's still an indent for every paragraph. While Time continues to indent in print, more and more print publications don't bother. Funny how the Internet can affect professional writing style. -t |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
 Posts: 3817 Location: Montreal |
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But the thing is, with CSS it's ridiculously easy to add paragraph indents:
p { text-indent: 4em } |
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