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Old 08-28-2014, 03:00 AM   #1
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The (Perhaps Obvious) Question of Ellipses

Since I possess the programming skills of a fossilized coelacanth, I'm going to ask two questions that might seem absurdly obvious:

Is there a way to get Calibre to honor the number and spacing of ellipsis points and

Is the issue created by settings within Calibre itself or within those of one of the Kobo plugins?

Ellipses are important to me because the number of points determines whether the writer is denoting the end of a complete sentence or a hesitation or omission within it. When I write a book, I'm careful to ensure that every ellipsis is correct (and that spaces separate all ellipsis points but the first in a four-point ellipsis or the last in a quotation), but once I transfer the book to Calibre, every single instance gets changed to a three-point ellipsis with squeezed spaces (if not the ellipsis character).

What I'd like to know is whether a setting can prevent that from happening and, if so, what that setting is and where to access it.
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