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Originally Posted by Notjohn
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, much as we were taught in typing class at Brewster Free Academy (using Army-surplus Remington manual typewriters). I have never before seen such a thing in a published book. What was Houghton Mifflin thinking?
I apologize for hijacking the thread, but to me this is a momentous discovery (despite the fact that I'd read the book years ago) and I just had to tell someone!
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I would recommend reading this article:
http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324
I will quote myself from a thread from last year:
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Side Note: This reminds me of this fascinating article, "Why two spaces after a period isn’t wrong (or, the lies typographers tell about history)". The author goes through even these older Style Guides themselves (like new/older versions of the Chicago Manual of Style) and demolishes this "double-spacing" myth! I assume something similar could be said about ellipses
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It was a thread that was necroed, and then we had a nice long semi-related side chat about spacing and other typographical decisions in ebooks:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...=206482&page=2
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Originally Posted by Toxaris
Although this is true for pseudo-classes and other elements, it is not true for  . That is perfectly valid in ePUB2 and should be supported. It is the PRS-650 that is not trustworthy here... That it is not supported, is an issue with the ADE engine on the reader since you already ruled out the font.
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If I remember correctly with my Nook, some of these rarer spaces do not work very well at all (appears as a blank box). I haven't tested the spaces in a very long time though.
I would just stick with nbsp; in many of these cases in ebooks for maximum compatibility. (Again, see that topic linked above, we had a huge discussion about it).
For example, in French, the thin space is used all over the place before/after punctuation, but it is perfectly valid to substitute a non-breaking space when writing French in HTML.
Also, is the thin space actually in the Georgia font? Everything I am looking at says that it doesn't contain it:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unic...al_punctuation
http://www.htmlescape.net/20/charact...pace_2009.html
Times New Roman is also missing a ton of Unicode, but it does look to have support for some of these rarer spaces:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unic...al_punctuation