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Originally Posted by AlanHK
The authoritative work in this field is The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst.
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I agree, quite a good book, but he is wrong on sentence spacing though.
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Originally Posted by Jellby
Note that, by going through all the trouble of encoding the spacing in some other way, you are preventing those who have a properly kerned font installed and selected as default from actually using it.
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I agree. The span solution seems quite hackish to me. Reminds me of the ol' soft hyphen discussion, where hyphenation is best left to the devices themselves. The solution looks ok on the surface, but it would cause more pain in the long-run.
Hyphenation should be left to the hyphenation algorithm, kerning should be left to the font, and the text itself should be pure.
At least things have gotten better on this front since ~2011-2012:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=132182
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=189487