…end of first sentence. Second sentence after a single space.
vs.
…end of first sentence. Second sentence after a double space.
(All inter-sentence spaces constructed with character codes.)
I know LiveJournal* converts a double space into a space followed by a non-breaking space specifically to preserve the double spacing between sentences.
* I know you’re probably sick of being compared to LiveJournal, but it is the commenting system I am most familiar with.
I wasn’t thinking of the vertical space. I was thinking of the space after a period, which is way too tight. This is ugly.
But I’m not sure what’s causing it to be so tight. It seems like an unfortunate default with the font.
Single space is normal–and how it is at Boing Boing, using the exact same font at the exact same size.
Double space is fine, too, whatever! You have to rig HTML to even let you use double spaces, though! So it’s surely the font, if single spacing is usually fine. I wouldn’t even know how to fix it, short of picking a new font. The answers usually given to doublespacify HTML are insanity, like using regular expressions to detect period-single-space and turn it into two with
If I kill the quote will it still show up as a reply?
Formatting: I am talking about how * on either side of a word automatically italicizes the word, along with many other things that I keep accidentally discovering.
Emoticons: It was not so much unintended as I prefer 
to 
. Hitting the escape box was not obvious to me … thanks.
I am not sure what you are referring to. I would like to go to my profile and see a list of all topics that I have commented on. You seem to be suggesting that I go to a topic and then click to see all my comments within that topic.
That looks like an issue with BB font, not really sure how we can adjust kerning just for that case without some major work.
Our standard font:
Adele in chrome:
cc @beschizza
Yeah … it will, sorry about that … clearing the reply would still involve going all the way to the bottom to and hitting the big reply button. There is not simple power user workaround here, I think the best thing is to way for keyboard shortcuts.
Yes, I assumed that is the main use case, not sure how we could really introduce topic grouping into the user stream, ideas?
There are an ever increasing number of space between the words of this sentence.
But none of that mattered, because Discourse recorded all of those spaces as spaces, and most browsers render multiple spaces as a single space.
Other commenting systems recognize that fact and turn the subsequent spaces after the first one into non-breaking spaces, thus assuring that all are displayed. This means that writers who have been taught, and habitually place, double spaces between sentences can have their double spaces and users who write with only a single space can write as they intended, each without inflicting their style on the other user. That is what @fireshadow meant when she said [quote=“fireshadow, post:90, topic:142”]
I would like to be able to put two spaces between sentences
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Wikipedia says
The 1969 edition of the Chicago Manual of Style used em spaces
between sentences in its text;[47] by the 2003 edition it had changed
to single sentence spacing for both manuscript and print.
Sentence spacing - Wikipedia
(“em space” is a double space)
so, fuck it, i guess. after i left school, the world decided to pretend traditional spacing didn’t make reading easier. whatever. i withdraw my suggestion.
EDIT: i think the key here is that the split screen allows us to see the formatted post. Antinous and I and everyone else was blissfully ignorant that the double-spaces we were composing were stripped out of the post until we could actually see it side-by-side.
I didn’t mean the indention, i meant after the “1.” and the other numbers/periods is a double space. my only point was that it existed as something rendered in html, which you said was impossible, but i kinda wish i hadn’t even brought this up; see Design suggestion box
Ideas … like how it would look? If I look at a BoingBoing Disqus “profile” it shows the comments grouped under their topic and the topics sorted by date posted. If people here like the “sorted by date” option, then maybe you could do something like putting a button (check mark? drop-down list? something else?) in the upper right-hand corner to turn the “group by topic” option on and off while viewing one of the all/responses/replies/likes given/likes received tabs? I have no idea if that would be resource intensive. Or have an additional tab which was basically the same as your “all” tab but already grouped by topic? I think that in general it is kind of difficult to look at the “all” tab and quickly figure out if a comment is there because I made it (this will be easier once I have an avatar that I recognize as “mine”), because I liked it, or because it is a response to one of my comments. Maybe this tab would be more useful it was automatically grouped by topic?
Pfft to style manuals. I think a double-space vs single-space is a readability issue rather than a typewriter-limitation issue.
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That’s what I said 
The font does suck. Since when is the top hole on a ‘B’ larger than the bottom one?
It looks good on this retina iPad but then virtually every font does. I do agree the period space is a little small though, as @Antinous noted.
Summary: Please embed Discourse into the blog post pages.
I really dislike having two webpages for every blog post: one for the post and one for the comments. Can’t Discourse be embedded in the blog post page like every other comment system out there does it today?
Rob has made a button out of the speech bubble icon in the headlines on the main page direct to the BBS/Discourse page. which is great, but only the “big” posts with the pictures and blockquotes and the full bylines get a speech bubble. the shorter, “little” posts don’t get one yet, which is pretty wack.
@beschizza, what’s with that? and how come J and K skip these “little” posts when browsing the main page? I asked Dean about it a few times when y’all switched to WP, he said he was working on it. can we get the little posts a speech bubble and JK functionality all at once? I’ll buy you a beer.
Maybe the posts that say:
"This topic was automatically closed after 5 days. New replies are no longer allowed."
might be configured to not count as an unread comment? I have a whole lot of topics at the bottom of the list with a “1” blue dot next to them, which is both unnecessary and (slightly) irritating.
Who knew BoingBoing was where all the double-spacing diehards have been hiding? None of you have a single professionally-published book on your shelf with two spaces between sentences. Show me a style manual that recommends two spaces, or a designer that does.
Why should it be different here?
I fixed this going forward, but you will have 10-20 you need to work through manually I did not catch
Why are BoingBoing topics closed after five days after the initial posting? Why not some other number? Or some number of days after the last comment? (Just curious.)
