[Doc-SIG] Idea: make double-space between sentences meaningful

[Aahz]

On Mon, May 17, 2004, David Goodger wrote:
>
> No writer so far does any whitespace normalization [*]_, so whatever
> whitespace is in the input (spaces, newlines) comes out as-is in the
> output.  LaTeX and any other back-end formatter is free to treat this
> whitespace as significant.

In fact, the OOwriter went to some lengths to *not* do whitespace
normalization -- the XML format used by OpenOffice.org condenses
whitespace just like HTML does.  So all sequences of more than one space
in reST source had special handling.
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