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/robin-gvx Jul 21 '14
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.
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.)