If your software has a dotfile where you can go Space-after-period: 2 Then it's not an issue. For the writer, or the person reading it.
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Single or double space after period is a non-issue, as are all such formatting debates. Linters exist. Let someone write a paper according to their dotfile config, then read it linted through yours. This is a mostly solved problem in software.
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Ideally, each student, teacher, professor, *reader* would have linting software with configurable rules that let them read and write however they want.
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It becomes a non-issue, as all such trivial things tend to do when you allow *users* to modify their user experience on their end via configuration.
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You *shouldn't* have to have a holy war about spaces given that "standardizing whitespace in text" has been a vital part of software development for generations now. Such standardization is built right into how teams communicate. The tech and use is already there.
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The only reason this is still an issue is because schools are underfunded, and what money they do have they pump into surveillance software. At least in academia.
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Outside academia? Whitespace correction comes packaged with Calibre. It's there, already.
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this is the type of thing i generally care too much about, and i do not care about it at all
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Greasemonkey but for academia.
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This linger's gonna have to be general AI to decide whether a period belongs to an abbreviation or the end of a sentence. There are ambiguous cases.
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yeah I would put money on this being an NP problem
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