Quote:
Originally Posted by AlexBell
This may be off topic but for what it is worth I really don't like to see single ndashes or right quotation marks on a line by themselves; it just looks ugly to me. Most of the ebooks I do were written in the 19th century, and it was quite common to see something like:
'Lorem ipsum dolor sit - ' which might end up as
'Lorem ipsum dolor sit
- '
or (even worse) Lorem ipsum dolor sit -
'
I end to use Lorem ipsum dolor sit –’
which at worse displays as
Lorem ipsum dolor
sit –’
Any comments?
|
Yes. It doesn't fix it in ADE or several other readers, anyway, as ADE, et al, will break bloody closing quotation marks away from the end of a line, even if they are after a period, emdash, etc. Using the nbsp doesn't solve that issue, and can cause more, like the George Gently discussion, because using them creates faux-words where they are least needed. For every place that an nbsp magically works to prevent the emdash, et al, from breaking away, it will cause another reader to have massive rivers of white because it does work in other locations.
Personally, I think the best bet is to join the punctuation (emdashes, endashes and ellipses being the big offenders) to the prior word, and leave a space after. This gives you a "split the baby" approach. I find an emdash starting a new line, or an ellipsis, far odder than ending one. FWIW; everyone has their own opinions on this topic.
Hitch