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Originally Posted by DaleDe
period-nbsp-space is clearly the correct way to code a double space at the end of a sentence to avoid a space at the beginning of a line. The double space convention was the standard for many years before HTML decided to ignore it. If someone uses that standard then they should be able to.
Dale
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Dale:
I'm not saying that they "can't," but even grammar and punctuation wonks like I have sort of "given over" on the post-period double-space. I still use it when I am actually typing (as you can easily see), but it is, to be fair, a vestigial usage from ye olden typesetting days. And despite eyes that are accustomed to seeing it for more decades than I wish to admit to, I have never noticed the omission in any ebook, FWIW.
And, yes, the correct way would be period-nbsp-space, but that's not what Sigil does, IIRC, if you try to do this in BV? It does, in fact, create it the other way round: period-space-nbsp. That was my point, for this particular poster. If he's not accustomed to s&r, which seems implicit (based on the tone of the question), then this is problematic for him. That's what I was discussing, Dale.
Hitch