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Originally Posted by PremaEbooks
Thanks for the hint, but that is even worse. It's not a proper "long dash" is sorter and it keeps separated from the word.
All the epubs are built by myself and the only reader that does this is Kobo with kepubs and Sony T1 with simple epubs.
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Sorry I didn't mean to imply that the quotation dash would avoid the kepub bug that adds extra space after some punctuation. But it does avoid another problem with using an mdash as a quotation dash, that of the reader treating the dash as a line break point.
The actual size and bearing of the quotation dash will be defined by the font you use, and with the kepub reader if the font lacks a quotation dash then it will substitute one from another font, which might not match the size of the mdash in the current font.
The screenshots attached show the difference between a quotation dash and an mdash, using the Amasis font in the epub reader (it works the same in the kepub reader except for the punctuation/justification bug) -- both readers allow a line break after the mdash, but not after the quotation dash:
(But in the end, if you want good typography then you need to sideload the book as an epub and use the epub reader. The kepub reader has some extra features like stats and image zoom, but it fails at basic stuff like justification, hyphenation, word spacing, etc.)