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Originally Posted by eggheadbooks1
Too often the italicized word leans too far into the question mark and looks squished. In a print publication one would just increase the distance between the two characters (in this case the e and the ?).
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That is best handled at the Program or Font Kerning level. You shouldn't be cluttering your source with that "hackish" fix.
The Font itself should have Kerning info for the: ! + ”, ? + ”... but not many (?) do.
Or intelligent layout systems like LaTeX apply an "italic correction" to handle that problem.
Side Note: I could swear Jellby discussed the Keming problem in detail a few years back in the "Where do I Put the font EULA" topic:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=225310
(We all went off on a big tangent discussing Fonts + other fun stuff... or maybe I am just imagining things
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Originally Posted by eggheadbooks1
How ereaders display similar text would depend on the font and how the device/app handles word spacing in a justified paragraph.
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Definitely a sore point are these hard edge cases. A lot of the time in Print that is just where you go in and muck it up with manual fixing... but those types of solutions don't work when the Font + Font Size + tons of other variables can be changed.