> Edit: I note that HN automatically compresses my double spaces to single ones. Sigh. That's what HTML does with ordinary consecutive spaces, not an HN choice

> Edit: I note that HN automatically compresses my double spaces to single ones. Sigh. That's what HTML does with ordinary consecutive spaces, not an HN choice. It's been this way for the entire history of HTML I believe. If you see anything else on the web (which I think you rarely will), the text set in HTML has unusual whitespace characters in it, either entered manually or algorithmically. Or maybe using some unusual application of CSS `white-space`, I'm not sure if there's a way to use that to preserve your inter-sentance whitespace without other probably undesirable side effects.