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Originally Posted by Psymon
<p class="olde"><span class="dropcap drop1"><img alt="I" src="../Images/init-t.png" /></span>hou <span style="white-space: nowrap">appere„</span> in my thouwts <span style="white-space: nowrap">o</span> <span style="white-space: nowrap">o¤en</span> of lait and I can nowth healpe bwt thynke hauw vniqwe thou hauef becom, hauw <i>eccepcionall</i> ...
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I'm sorry, but that code is wrong. You are using a font with non-standard mapping, and then some symbol codes for different characters. This is disallowed by the ePub spec:
"Fonts must not provide mappings for Unicode characters that would change the semantics of the text (e.g. mapping the letter "A" to a biohazard symbol)"
The long-s has its own Unicode spot, and ligatures should be dealt with by the font, not by using specific characters in the input. You should write:
Thou appereſt in my thouwts ſo often...
and use a font with ſ glyph and proper ſt and ft ligatures. Then you won't need those "nowrap" spans (as long as the reader understand that ſ is a letter)
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if the word happens to be at the end of the line and can "break", it will, and it won't do so with a hyphen, so there's no indication to the reader
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which, of course, was common in 16th century typesetting
