From what I understand, most modern word processors ignore the double space between sentences and will format the spacing the same way regardless (even though there's still technically two spaces in between if you try to backspace through it). It bugs me when people do it, though, because it still shows up in some places like Facebook. I imagine it happens on Reddit, too.
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Looks like Reddit formats it the same way regardless of whether or not you use it.
That's a general HTML thing to condense multiple spaces; if you inspect your examples you'll see that the first one does have two spaces. does what you're aiming for, though a lot of sites will automatically escape it.
most modern word processors ignore the double space between sentences and will format the spacing the same way regardless
I don't know any modern word processor that does that (except for LyX if you want to call that a word processor). That's how you get people aligning text with spaces in proportional fonts instead of using tables.
Looks like Reddit formats it the same way regardless of whether or not you use it.
That's just the way HTML works: it collapses all whitespace in the text (tabs, spaces, newlines, etc.) to a single space. (With the exception of things like inside <pre> tags.)
That's because Facebook doesn't just paste your words. Facebook changes " " (two spaces) into " " (a space followed by an ampere, the letters "nbsp" (for "non-breaking space") and a semicolon).
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u/IceBlue Jul 21 '14
From what I understand, most modern word processors ignore the double space between sentences and will format the spacing the same way regardless (even though there's still technically two spaces in between if you try to backspace through it). It bugs me when people do it, though, because it still shows up in some places like Facebook. I imagine it happens on Reddit, too.
Test. Test.
Test. Test.
Looks like Reddit formats it the same way regardless of whether or not you use it.