Lack of double spaces between sentences is the standard publication protocol for publications using variable-spaced type. The pre-eminent authority is the Chicago Manual of Style. For the authoritative answer on this question, see http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/OneSpaceorTwo/OneSpaceorTwo_ques... .
Pick up and examine any _professionally_ published book, magazine, or newspaper and you won't find double spaces, nor will you find commas or periods standing outside the double quotes.
It is definitely not "webism," which repeats, over and over again, the worst mistakes of common English grammar and punctuation.
John van V. wrote:
I considered attempting to install TinyMCE because my use for Mediawiki right now is to develop technical documents, and also social science arguments about <see sig>
What troubles me about the Mediawiki editor is not the small feature set, but the lack of double spaces between sentences. This "webism" forces me to use M$ Word in the library, which scans for this writing error.
I read that there had been problems, so I went to the Moxiecode owned Mediawiki, and the Moxie coders have not themselves implemented it there, so....
~~John
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