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Ask for help > What IS it with this gap before the apostrophe??
What IS it with this gap before the apostrophe??
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Tapioca
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What IS it with this gap before the apostrophe??
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It �s driving me mad! Someone please tell me there �s a way to delete the extra space the message board adds before the apostrophe. Do you have to switch off HTML formatting or something? Is it a font thing? It �s (Arial) It �s (Comic sans) It �s (Tahoma) |
16 Oct 2015
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LinguaPirot
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It �s not a font thing. There is no extra space in MS Word, for example. It could be a default formatting on this site only. Let �s see again: It´s (Arial) It´s (Comic sans) It´s (Tahoma) |
16 Oct 2015
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LinguaPirot
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Interesting... I copied the text, deleted the spacing, and it remained that way. Comic sans turned into times, though.. :) But, yes, definitely a site thing. Persists despite the fact I removed all formatting: It �s, They �re, I �ve.... |
16 Oct 2015
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Tapioca
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testing... It´s STRANGE (paste from simple text) It �s BIZARRE (pasted then deleted and inserted again)
It"s JUST PLAIN WEIRD It*s an asterisk It`s some weird symbol on my keyboard that I have never used before but it also looks like an apostrophe |
16 Oct 2015
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Tapioca
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Okay I did some digging and it might be a regional/language setting on the website which has been set to French instead of UK/US/International English. Victor is Spanish, isn*t he? |
16 Oct 2015
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Tapioca
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Test 3: Don �t use �it �s � with an apostrophe or you �ll find yourself with extra spaces. |
16 Oct 2015
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Tapioca
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Well that theory bit the dust. There are apostrophes without the extra spaces in the FAQ section. I am pasting the first one in here to see what happens:
FAQ – Why haven’t I got any points?
The points from your uploaded
worksheet take 2 days. Wait two
days and you’ll have the points. Be
patient the points will come. |
16 Oct 2015
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Tapioca
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It’s an "it �s" but the apostrophe is copied from the FAQ text in the first one. It �s in Verdana Size 2 10pt |
16 Oct 2015
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LinguaPirot
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checking regional settings: ENGLISH keyboard It�s an "it �s" SERBIAN latin keyboard It�s an "it �s"
edit: all the same here..
So, when typing, it is "It�s" but it is displayed as "it �s"... the apostrophe is changed by the site default, which is familiar to the site web master... I tried to find it in the elements, but am not competent enough :)
for Chrome, select the text you are interested, right click and go to "inspect elements" for more details, e.g.:
ENGLISH keyboard It�s an "it �s"
span font size for regular apostrophe is 10pt, but it is 13.333 for the default �.. just enough for a double spacing? who knows.. not competent enough :)
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16 Oct 2015
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Tapioca
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Hi LinguaPirot, Thank you so much for checking! It �s weird isn �t it, that you can paste in an apostrophe which works, but cannot type one without the space. It must be some kind of language setting for the website. I can see it has been made with Microsoft FrontPage 6.0 but I cannot see any issues with it related to this problem. One thing I did notice was that the "you �ll" which displayed correctly at the beginning for the FAQs actually was a plain "youll" without any apostrophe, so it has been autocorrected. I wonder if its smart enough to autocorrect this on its own? I somehow doubt it. :-)) |
16 Oct 2015
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Tapioca
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This is a page which describes a similar problem in Outlook, but given it �s a Microsoft product, maybe FrontPage has similar settings: Apostrophe & quotation marks are inserted with extra spaces http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/email/marks-are-inserted-with-extra-spaces/ Interesting what it says about French punctuation rules. Does anyone know if in French, a space is required before an apostrophe? |
16 Oct 2015
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