turns out ren'py collapses runs of whitespace into a single space
so not only is it eating all my double-spacing between sentences, but it's eating it so early that i can't even use the double-spaces to detect sentences, and i am gonna have to be real fuckin creative to fix it
i have successfully overridden a chunk of the lexer from within the language being lexed. you think i fear you? i grew up with perl. you will take my two spaces and you will like it