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Old 11-25-2012, 04:36 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by Ripplinger View Post
It also seemed to keep a uniform space between the periods, never stretching that space wider for justified margins, which was what I wanted.
  is a non-breaking space, which is good for your need, but as far as I know, it's nowhere specified that it should not stretch with justification. That is indeed the case with Adobe-based readers (and maybe others), but do not rely too much on that (the equivalent markup in LaTeX, which is "~", is allowed to stretch, for instance).

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And once converted to mobi the same situation happens, wider spaces for justifying the margins for both quotes and ellipses.
Conversion can change everything. The target format may support a different set of features, and the conversion software may introduce all kinds of changes.

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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
<span class="olddot">.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</span>

.olddot {display: block; letter-spacing: 6pt; }
"letter-spacing" and "inline-block" are not included in the required CSS subset of ePub 2.1, though. But that might work in readers that support them. You could even define a new entity, say &oldhellip;, for easier usage, but I'm afraid custom entity definition (which requires online or embedded DCD files) is not much tested.

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Is &thinsp; accepted by all readers?
The font is the main problem here. I know it works fine with my Orizon, and probably all later Bookeen readers.

But if you want a thin non-breaking space, you have to use &# 8239; (without the space), which is more likely to be missing from the font.
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