[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by yekim54

@roger64:

(1) I opened chapter.xhtml from your nbsp.epub file in Notepad++ and there were zero &nbsp in the file.

(2) I opened your nbsp.epub with Sigil 0.7.2 and there were zero &nbsp in the chapter.xhtml file.

(3) I opened your nbsp.epub with Sigil 0.6.2 and there were 12 &nbsp in the chapter.xhtml file.

(4) I saved (3) as nbsp_new.epub and opened it in Sigil 0.7.2, and there were 12 nbsp in the chapter.xhtml file.

(5) I opened chapter.xhtml from my nbsp_new.epub file in Notepad++ and there were 12 &nbsp in the file.

Conclusion: it appears Sigil 0.6.2 added 12 &nbsp to your original nbsp.epub file.

That would seem a reasonable thing for Sigil to do. In 6.2 it would preserve double spaces by making one a nbsp. 7.2 doesn't do that any longer but as you pointed out it does not remove them either. It would seem that 7.2 leaves the double spaces in the file but does not attempt to preserve them in the output.

Dale