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Originally Posted by AaronShep
I certainly agree that it's the wrong way to add vertical space. Like I said, the proper way in CSS is with margin-bottom or margin-top. In Word, you would use Space After or Before, and that would translate to the proper CSS in exported HTML.
But that's not the primary use of the nonbreaking space. That space is meant to hold together phrases that should not be split into two lines. Every Kindle has supported this from the beginning. And now it's gone. So, you now can have line breaks in the middle of "OS X," or "7 inches." And that's just going to look dumb. It's bad enough that we haven't been able to use the nonbreaking hyphen on Kindle. This just makes it worse.
Aaron
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I don't understand why having a line break in the middle of "7 inches" would look "dumb". I never even knew that it wasn't supposed to happen.
I just did a search of all of the books on my Kindle, and I can't find any examples of "
any number inches" being separated by a non-breaking space. Granted, I didn't look at the code behind the books, just did a search on the word "inches" on my Kindle, and anywhere that word was associated with a number, I would then check to see if it was possible to have the number and the word "inches" on separate lines. It was. In every case. This was looking at books in .mobi format, .azw format, .azw3 format, and .kfx format. So either the non-breaking space between those two words isn't a thing that other publishers worry about, or none of those formats actually honor non-breaking spaces.
Shari