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hkdorama · 07-26-2010, 05:43 AM

I found that in Kindle when you have an em space with no spaces on the sides, the Kindle does not allow line breaks before or after the em dash.

What I have is a paragraph of words and their translations formatted as follows (the paragraph is justified and I need to keep is justified, so left-align would not be an option):

Code:

word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word;

Looks like Kindle treats "word—the" as one word. But that results in really bad line breaks, especially when 'word' is long.

I have tried using thin-spaces on the sides on the em dash by Kindle treats even that as one word!

Would anybody have any suggestions?

07-26-2010, 05:43 AM	#1
hkdorama Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: iPad, Sony Reader, Kindle 2	em-dashes & Kindle I found that in Kindle when you have an em space with no spaces on the sides, the Kindle does not allow line breaks before or after the em dash. What I have is a paragraph of words and their translations formatted as follows (the paragraph is justified and I need to keep is justified, so left-align would not be an option): Code: word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; word—the translation of the word; Looks like Kindle treats "word—the" as one word. But that results in really bad line breaks, especially when 'word' is long. I have tried using thin-spaces on the sides on the em dash by Kindle treats even that as one word! Would anybody have any suggestions?