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Old 12-31-2013, 12:49 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
I like to have two spaces between sentences, especially for foreign (for me) language texts. Currently I achieve this via putting a 'space' followed by a 'nbsp' between sentences.

Some of my colleagues whose first language is not English also like to have double space an the end of sentences in English text. For the same reason as me - it makes reading foreign language texts easier.

If 'nbsp' is banished - because "[its] not part of HTML" - how would I get two spaces between sentences, most (all ?) viewers seem to ignore a second 'space'.

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nbsp is not banished in HTML but is not defined in XML. ePub uses XHTML which is a predefined XML implementation, not an HTML implementation no matter what extension you use. It is possible to defined named entities in the file itself but better to use the numeric equivalents. 160 is decimal while A0 is hexadecimal. Either will work if defined properly. You are correct that in XML and HTML multiple regular spaces are reduced to a single space when being interpreted.

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