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[Jason Davies]

On the suggestion for double-spaces, I share the general 'oh 
no'. I see an explosion of people with iPads etc trying out 
Markdown in education because formatting sucks on iPads. They 
struggle with needing new lines (see recent post for an 
example). In short, they struggle with white-space (invisible) mark-up.

Added to that, frequently cut and paste leaves double spaces (eg 
in BBEdit which abandoned smart copy paste on this years ago in 
despair). Then perhaps most crucially, what about trying to type 
a double-space on an iPad? You will get a full-stop...!


(just taking a chance to say thank you to JG and FP for Markdown 
and Multimarkdown. Years ago in OS 9 I had Nisus converting 
formatted to my home made mark-up through macros for editing on 
Palms, then when Nisus abandoned its macros, in LaTeX. But 
typing LaTeX on an ipad is a nightmare so now I can once again 
do what I did 15 years ago, which is type/edit books and 
articles on a mobile device...basically, if I do anything at 
all, it must pass through BBEdit at some point...;))