| Two space compliance (2) | Thursday, Jul 20, 2006 3:23 pm |
My site is now officially two space compliant! This means that sentences with two spaces after the period are shown with two spaces after the period! This sounds like a simple concept, but HTML makes things pretty difficult by only showing a single space whether there are two or a million. Scott Reilly's Text Replace plugin to the rescue! It's painfully simple: It searches for a specified piece of text and replaces it with a different specified piece of text. In my case, it looks for two spaces and replaces them with a and a single space (a single space and a didn't work quite right; neither did two ). It doesn't save the changes into the database; it's just a front-end aesthetic thing. It's the most useful thing I've come across in a while.
How positively obsessive compulsive :)
My concern would be that it might throw people off and take them longer to read when they're used to single-spaced documents.
Heck yeah! OCD!
I doubt it'll take anyone more time to read unless they spend time reading spaces. If anything, it should make it easier to read because it shows where sentences end.