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pozzo · 02-23-2017, 05:04 PM

Currently preparing my first book for Kindle, I've noticed that when read in Kindle for PC using Bookerly font, sometimes the italics unattractively bump up against punctuation immediately following, e.g. close quotes, colon, close parenthesis, exclamation, question marks. Evidently, the more recent styleguides advise running italics through the end punctuation, differing from earlier guides. But it looks to me that most ebooks close the italic before the punctuation (ie. are confined to the word itself). Everything looks perfectly well in Caecilia & Georgia, but I'm thinking that, since Bookerly seems to have a lot of fans (and is perhaps taking over?), it might be best to go back through and move all the necessary closing tags to behind the punctuation. Has anyone noticed the issue in Bookerly?
Grateful for any thoughts & advice.

02-23-2017, 05:04 PM	#1
pozzo Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2017 Device: Kindle	Currently preparing my first book for Kindle, I've noticed that when read in Kindle for PC using Bookerly font, sometimes the italics unattractively bump up against punctuation immediately following, e.g. close quotes, colon, close parenthesis, exclamation, question marks. Evidently, the more recent styleguides advise running italics through the end punctuation, differing from earlier guides. But it looks to me that most ebooks close the italic before the punctuation (ie. are confined to the word itself). Everything looks perfectly well in Caecilia & Georgia, but I'm thinking that, since Bookerly seems to have a lot of fans (and is perhaps taking over?), it might be best to go back through and move all the necessary closing tags to behind the punctuation. Has anyone noticed the issue in Bookerly? Grateful for any thoughts & advice. Last edited by pozzo; 02-23-2017 at 06:27 PM. Reason: typos