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Old 03-24-2016, 12:29 PM   #53
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
It won't work because it's the same character and Kindles treat em-dashes the same no matter how you code it. There is no secret coding you can use to get a Kindle to to treat an em-dash any differently.
Breaking before a dash isn't nearly as bad as the behaviour of one of my first reading device - the Bookeen CyBook Gen 3 - which wouldn't break a sentence at all at a dash, which meant that if (as is correct) you used em-dashes without surrounding spaces, you'd get horrible justification, particularly if the two words on either side of the dash were long words.
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