Thread: mdash - a good thing or not - in e-books
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Old 03-07-2011, 10:22 AM   #10
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so for (English) html, to be ultra-precise we should surround mdash with softbreaks except where preceded by or followed by a quote mark ..
or if that is too much hassle we just wait for e-reader firmware to get smarter ?

( & that's assuming that Kindle even understands softbreaks )
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