So, it seems that Ao3 strips out double spacing. Thats not a problem for most stories (I assume), but for my purposes -- writing American Sign Language (technically Pidgeon Signed English, a variant) in #ASLWrite, I gotta have those double spaces. I type it out, I copy paste, anywhere without the font installed (which is most spaces) it turns into English letters, then you (or me, or whoever) copy's and pastes it, pops it into a program with the font, and voila, there it is again, written sign language. But I gotta have the ability to double and triple space because its necessary to properly mush the sign components together.
No biggie; the font comes with a nifty feature (totally for unrelated reasons than ao3) where a space can be replaced with aaa or zzzzzz. So if I want to type (I hope thats two spaces and the fediverse didn't strip it out too) then I can type
aaa
or
zzzzzz
(there should be a space in front of each of these)
Given that I also added a tiny little intro in actual English I need to retake my screenshot all over again. But never fear, I'm not actually ready to publish publish. Everything is sitting in the "testing" fandom which is like a draft but...not.