Jul 20, 2006
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. #technology
My concern would be that it might throw people off and take them longer to read when they're used to single-spaced documents.
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.