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Old 05-08-2015, 11:16 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by rubeus View Post
  is not supported by my PRS 650 even if i have fonts in the ebook. Sigil is not trust worthy here, cause it uses QT5 which will render and allow much more as declared in the epub Standard, e.g. Sigil will follow all pseudo-classes, but no epub2 reader will follow this style.
Interesting.
I'm using XP, which doesn't support QT5 apps.
So I'm using an older version of Calibre and its minions, which shows the problem.


I tried all the spaces in Sigil's "insert" :
nbsp
ensp
emsp
thinsp
shy
nnbsp

of these only nbsp and shy worked, the rest are black boxes.

Great.
You don't even need a glyph to display a space. Any font should work.
I expect issues with Chinese or Hieroglyphics, but spaces should be trivial and work in everything.

So now I have to use stupid thick nbsp instead of thin.
And I replaced each em with 3 nbsp, which looks really stupid in code but works.


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Originally Posted by Notjohn View Post
Speaking of em spaces, I am reading The Far Side of Paradise, Mizener's wonderful biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was published in the 1950s, I think. I was astonished to see a double-wide space following every sentence
Books printed early last century had different conventions for spacing. Wide space after sentences, and more before colons, e.g. And they used a lot more capitals.

Look at a few random old books on Google Books or at your local library.
By the 1950s it would be uncommon but obviously still acceptable.

But now of course with easy DTP and all the self published crap, double spacing, straight quotemarks and every other typographic horror is to be seen.

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