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Old 05-11-2015, 04:56 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
What? Do you suggest that your single "0.166em" space (or whatever) is the best possible spacing for all and every font? I beg to differ
It's better than nothing, which is the default in every font I've looked at (except, presumably, yours).
I haven't seen an alternative that is widely supported.

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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post

I had the same hope when I was younger I've see hyphenations before question marks and after opening quote marks, and I mean real hyphenation, not just a linebreak. Of course the same could happen if you had the quote marks with nothing between them, but having a span boundary between the quote marks increases the chances of something like this happening.
Fine, you can run your quotemarks together for fear of rogue hyphenation. I'll separate them and take the risk.

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