Hard Spaces

[JordanIda]

Please provide a way to enter hard spaces in the Forum and Fiction editors. (Space that doesn't collapse when rendered.)

Example:

please provide
hard spaces

The words above, have lots of space between them, and the second line has leading space. As rendered they should look like this (with underscores representing spaces):

please_________provide
______________________________hard__________spaces


Why, you ask? Impossible to render contemporary poetry without the ability to control whitespace between and preceding words.

 

[L1aei]

Trying it and failed.

First line

Second line indented with 4 spaces

Third line indented further

Line with intentional gaps

Yeah, I can't keep those hard spaces. See, this is what I had before hitting the post button:

I definitely think having this would be nice.

 

[Conqueror_Quack]

Trying it and failed.

First line

Second line indented with 4 spaces

Third line indented further

Line with intentional gaps

Yeah, I can't keep those hard spaces. See, this is what I had before hitting the post button:

View attachment 46949

I definitely think having this would be nice.

Can you try doing it with invisible charectors?

 

[JordanIda]

This isn't an advert (I swear) but I've just started a poetry thread that people seem to like, and I'm pulling all my punches there. I've got a lot that I just can't post, so I'm giving them vanilla! :(

Can you try doing it with invisible charectors?

Great idea!

That's what I was trying to do last hour, and I somehow deadlocked the forum editor by putting it in BBCode, trying to inject styles on characters. (Submitted a bug report but L1ae helped me over there.)

Anyway, invisible characters seem to be impossible to do as well, unless I'm missing something. (1) because inline CSS gets stripped out, and (2) because one can't use font colors to mimic invisibility as it's impossible to know whether a browser is using normal or contrast themes.

I was fooling around with BBCode to see if I could somehow inject HTML non-breaking spaces,   ... but I couldn't find a way.

 

[L1aei]

Can you try doing it with invisible charectors?

What @JordanIda just did is what I tried and failed. And as the second person in this thread trying, I can confirm those syntax selections, the ones I messed with, just formats the color code, and that's problematic when we don't know what other readers are using as their background theme.

 

[Agentt]

I wonder if this works...

[\b]Hello
mn, no sadly...

[\quote] hello

also no D:

 

[JordanIda]

abcmmmmmdef

So the above works in normal display mode, but the m's are visible in high contrast themes.

 

[TinaMigarlo]

from the moment I uploaded my first ever chapter to a webnovel site, I wondered what was wrong. My indent on the paragraph disappeared! I tried format,no format, both the same. I tried messing with my text editor (treat <tab> as so many spaces) and I eventually gave up and just got used to seeing paragraphs not indented. It bugged me as a newcomer to this world, but I got used to it. I saw this on MQ, WP, RR and now here on SH. Figured it was just a "webnovel thing".