Howdy Super G, Double Space Forever! I've learned to double space my sentances back in junior high and there is no way I could break the habit now :-) Seriously though? You would probably have to edit the three functions in the source code that handle incoming text: plaintext, autoformat & the regular HTML. I'd imagine it would be a simple regex you'd have to insert in each one. Something like # clean up double spaces in HTML $content =~ s/ / /gi; The other "fix" I can think of is creating a scoop hook after story & comment posts. You can get the hook to call a box that cleans up the HTML in the comment/story to your liking. I'm almost positive that the hook will pass in the Story ID or Comment ID when it calls your box code. A hook/box is probably not the most elegant fix, it probably the easiest way to implement your own HTML filter without touching the source code. Or you can just give us guys who are set in their ways a break ;-) Let me know if you get something working! -- Cory R. King Vice President - XLAN, Inc. Super G wrote: > I've been running a Scoop site for about nine months now (and reading > Scoop sites for a lot longer than that), and there's something bugging > me that I imagine would be quite easy to fix. > > Many people who learned to type in the typewriter era put two spaces > between a period and the start of the next sentence. If this is done in > an HTML document, the user agent only displays a single space, > conforming with modern typing conventions. However, Scoop seems to have > a quirk where it inserts a non-breaking space (nbsp) character in place > of the second space. This phenomenon can cause some ugliness, especially > when a line starts with the nbsp character, giving a ragged appearance > on the left margin. > > Is there some kind of patch that can be applied to address this problem? > Or is there some kind of Scoop box that I can include on my site to > filter out the nbsp characters? > > Thanks, > Super G > _______________________________________________ > Scoop-help mailing list > Scoop-help at lists.kuro5hin.org > http://lists.kuro5hin.org/mailman/listinfo/scoop-help >