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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
That's all part of what SmartyPants does.  quotes, ellipses, em- en-dash conversion.
I wasn't guessing. I looked at the code for the SmartyPants script that's included with calibre. The only things Smarten punctuation converts to the elipse character is three periods in a row, or period<sp>period<sp>period.
Period-nbsp-period-nbsp-period will escape Smarten punctuation's notice. |
I wasn't guessing either, though I didn't fully get the gist of your response - I missed your point about non-breaking spaces, which
is true regardless (although I think the OP asked about nbsp as a separate topic). Last time I checked though Smartypants didn't change three dots in a row, e.g. '...'. I'll readily admit that it's quite possible I'm no longer correct about current behavior due to more recent changes in smartypants. I know my original statement was true at one time in the past because smarten punctuation didn't affect ellipsis or double dashes, to resolve the issue I added and QA'd the extra logic which modifies them. Check the last lines of code here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kovid/c.../preprocess.py
edit - it's possible you're agreeing with me, but we got mixed up on where the smartypants vs smarten_punctuation code is.