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Yes, there are options, but few are as easy to achieve as a double-tap on the spacebar. The plugin I use to export from LibreOffice actually converts <space><space> to <space>, but this has it's own problems (upsets justification), so I always remove double-spaces before export. |
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So again, my point was: just because an app creates HTML doesn't mean your two spacebar hits won't have a double space effect. It often will. Last edited by ApK; 09-04-2013 at 01:25 PM. |
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I do see people using punctuation in weird ways, such as putting one or more spaces in front of comma's or stops, or using comma's where apostrophes must be, or the other way around, or combinations of these things. I've actually seen people consistently use the inverted ? and ! in place where a normal ? or ! should be. (No, they were not Spanish or anything.) Often I wonder where people pick up these weird habits. (1) Except in some programming languages, that require some specific number of spaces or tabs (or other white space) before or after certain statements, as part of their syntax. Like if you should crack the egg on the pointy top or on the round bottom when you get to eat it? Last edited by Katsunami; 09-04-2013 at 03:41 PM. |
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09-04-2013, 04:36 PM | #35 |
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Have a problem with big-endians? Besides that, my bit is more significant than your bit!
I think most people won't get your reference... I don't even know if you mean it like I think you do, because nowadays it's of no consequence, except if you're doing some really low level programming. Heck... Endianness even wasn't part of my education anymore, and I program microcontrollers. I had to worry about it only once in my life up until now. Go figure. Most people of my age and younger won't even know what it is. Doesn't that make you very old, compared to me? Last edited by Katsunami; 09-05-2013 at 09:57 AM. |
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<p>This and that.<p> On my computer (Windows 7), Opera 12, Firefox 17, and Internet Explorer 9 all get it right. Last edited by gmw; 09-05-2013 at 07:45 AM. |
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I was actually surprised that it worked in my example (well, I was surprised it worked in Chrome...IE I've come to expect to be non-compliant). I fully expected to need an  , or to see Word use some complex style.
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ETA (again). I could simulate what you see by copying a literal non-breaking-space from the character map into an ANSI 1252 encoded text file. If you can get a hex view you may find those "spaces" are 0xA0 characters (if no hex, trying using Ctrl+Right to jump between words and see if it can't find the start of the second testing). Last edited by gmw; 09-05-2013 at 08:42 AM. |
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So, there we go. There's one way an app preserves double spaces after periods in HTML. ApK |
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In Polish in specific cases (dialogue) dashes are used where a Westeuropean might expect quotation marks. "In a quote inside an other:« this would be it.»„ But a lot of the other oddities you mentioned puzzle me too. |
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*shame* indeed... Thanks for refreshing my memory Harry. It's years ago I had to use French in written form - and it certainly is the foreign tongue I was taught with the smallest success.
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