Hidden space - a hole in the MN time/space continuum?

[BecauseImWorthIt]

I have noticed that in long
posts, suddenly there appears a rogue space.

Is this a secret door into the wonderful world of MNHQ, or something more mundane to do with the arcane world of coding?

Look:

[b iscuit]

[bi scuit]

[bis cuit]

[bisc uit]

Hoping it's worked ....

95 96

dh would love this. He'd find the answer in minutes flat.

He's just fallen asleep. Bum.

I'm loving how this has drawn out all the wankers/pedants ...

what in this time plane is a hard return?

CatherineMumsnet could lend you the official Mumsnet waking-up stick...

jumping without a parachute

The enter key.

i'm not a pendant. have not not read any of my posts and want to go through with a red pen yet? my posts are shocking.

Well, you're a wanker then!

ok so what is a soft return?

RB - very impressive!

Come and join the wankers here, Einstein!

will admit to science geek...

reading back my post i have had a very bad friday night type image OOM !

Soft return is when the web page decides to break a line all by itself to avoid poking the adverts.

Going to bed now but sincerely hope Tech will stop sweating over his hard refreshes and code releases so that he can explain all pronto.

If you put the posts into Word & click on the 'Show/Hide' button (¶) you can see the characters the computer uses for formatting text - a hard return (enter) is shown by the right angled arrow, like the one you get on the enter key, so you can see where they are.

YYY, RB - but why are they there?!

Ah the tech terminology for the stuff i look at when using word. Always have the formating showing. Means i know what exactly i am swearing at when microsoft doesnt do what i want throws a girly hissy fit.

I must admit, I never knew I was doing a 'hard' return!

Still, having been trained on a 'sit up and beg' manual typewriter, I suppose it does equate to a 'hard' shove!

BIWI - if you look at most of my posts on MN, you will see that I tend to stick to the adding up & leave the eternal verities to the representatives of the Amalgamated
Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Wankers Thinking Persons.

The Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers.

Or is that the 4th floor solution to expensive paperweights....

Absolutely, Rusty.

"I'll just click on one more thread," I said, "before I have an early night"

Had to pick this one didn't I.....

And there begins the true addiction ...!

ooooo can I join in >

[grin ]