#22 Documentation editor loses data

[Randolf C. Richardson]

The documentation editor is losing data. If I type in two
sentences, and follow the first period by two spaces,
when I switch away then come back there is only one
space where I typed two.

This is a serious error because it sabotages my use of
correct English punctuation which can be bad for my
credibility when presenting this to a customer (unless I
go through all the documentation and add the second
space -- this is very counter-productive for projects with
large numbers of tables and fields).

Thanks in advance.

[Andrea Carboni]

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The problem with spaces is tied to the HTML backend of the editor. When
the editor takes back the previous HTML it removes sequences of spaces.

I did not find a way to keep spaces. There was one way but it didn't
worked.

The docs editor has many issues due to the strange behaviour of the
HtmlEditorKit java class from Sun. I spent one month trying to make it work
and this is the result. For now I have other coding priorities (improving sql
generation and er views among them) so I cannot afford the rewriting of
the editor (which is the *best* thing to do).

I hope that someone else would accept this challenging task and start
rewriting the editor...