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Re:Code icebergs by geekdesigngirl on Saturday November 06, 2010 @06:13PM (#1877889)
I grew up with that drilled into my head in typing class but, come to find out, now it is not followed in many cases. Most type faces should only have 1 space after the period. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/spaces.html

It took me forever to stop hitting the space bar twice after ending a sentence.

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Re:Code icebergs by timcederman on Saturday November 06, 2010 @08:19PM (#1878174)
For my thesis, the easiest thing was to do a find/replace on ". " with ". " when I was done.
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Re:Code icebergs by presidentender on Saturday November 06, 2010 @09:12PM (#1878273)
And because of the tendency for a browser to strip whitespace from HTML to render pages readably, those two things look exactly the same.

If you want consecutive spaces in a bare HTML page, you have to use " " which doesn't work here because pg isn't a moron.

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Re:Code icebergs by spicyj on Sunday November 07, 2010 @12:45AM (#1878709)
You can use the appropriate special character instead of the entity.  Like this.
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Re:Code icebergs by jrockway on Sunday November 07, 2010 @08:49AM (#1879317)
Because you aren't a moron.
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Re:Code icebergs by presidentender on Sunday November 07, 2010 @08:12PM (#1880975)
I am though :(
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Re:Code icebergs by jedbrown on Saturday November 06, 2010 @09:02PM (#1878256)
TeX
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