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Turtle91 · 08-24-2019, 10:31 AM

Multiple normal spaces are condensed into 1 space on all renderers that I'm aware of - and any whitespace between paragraph tags is ignored.
You would need to use letter-spacing and/or word-spacing in your CSS to adjust the distance.
If your renderer does not support that CSS you can use some work-arounds like adding non-breaking-spaces (  or & #160; ).

for example:
Hello (no spaces)
H e l l o (single space)
H& #160; e& #160; l& #160; l& #160;* o (non-breaking space PLUS single space)
H   e   l &nbsp ; l   o (multiple non-breaking-spaces)

edit: don't put a space between the &#...I couldn't keep the forum from converting it to an actual space even when I tried using noparse.

Of course, you could also get a different font that has larger space between the letters... but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?

08-24-2019, 10:31 AM	#5
Turtle91 A Hairy Wizard Posts: 3,360 Karma: 20171571 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Charleston, SC today Device: iPhone 15/11/X/6/iPad 1,2,Air & Air Pro/Surface Pro/Kindle PW & Fire	Multiple normal spaces are condensed into 1 space on all renderers that I'm aware of - and any whitespace between paragraph tags is ignored. You would need to use letter-spacing and/or word-spacing in your CSS to adjust the distance. If your renderer does not support that CSS you can use some work-arounds like adding non-breaking-spaces (  or & #160; ). for example: Hello (no spaces) H e l l o (single space) H& #160; e& #160; l& #160; l& #160;* o (non-breaking space PLUS single space) H   e   l &nbsp ; l   o (multiple non-breaking-spaces) edit: don't put a space between the &#...I couldn't keep the forum from converting it to an actual space even when I tried using noparse. Of course, you could also get a different font that has larger space between the letters... but that's going a bit too far, don't you think? Last edited by Turtle91; 08-24-2019 at 11:56 AM.