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Originally Posted by theducks
& hellip; is single char (and is available on the omega icon tool) no more break worries
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Not necessarily. There is the situation that can occur like this:
There are also many books that use "four dot ellipsis" or some older books used even more. The ellipsis character does not work well in that situation.
Some fonts also have oddities with the ellipsis character, in which the "dots" don't match your typical period, or do not have similar kerning to the default period, making it look quite odd when they are near eachother.
I had a large post typed up covering my personal annoyances with ellipses in EPUBs, but then scrapped it.
Here are some more resources on the topic:
https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...s-for-ellipses
http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2013/...dobe-indesign/
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questi...xetex-document
Different Style Guides and different languages also have different rules.
Ultimately, ellipses are a a huge pain in the bottom, and these "Smarten Punctuation" algorithms completely mangle them.