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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Even if you could add code to prevent wrapping, that could still break things. Try the code on a smallish phone and a large font size and watch it break.
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Well, off the top of my head, I think "Shakespeare" is the longest name in my book (where I've used that way of typesetting things). Even with spaces in-between each character, i.e.
S h a k e s p e a r e
...are small-screen devices THAT small, and do people bump up their font size THAT big, that that would break? And if that breaks, then wouldn't those people be seeing things breaking all over the place, all the time, anyway? So is it really that big a deal that I should concern myself over this?
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As for the names, I've never seen names with smallcaps also have letter spacing. IMHO, it looks odd and would be better off without the letter spacing.
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Actually, I thought it looked rather nice -- in that Shakespeare book of mine, you can find it in multiple places, like on the title page, at the end of the prologue and other front matter, wherever there was a "sign-off" with a person's name at the end of any particular section (in particular in Robert Chester's "Loves Martyr" book, which is included in my Shakespeare anthology).
Perhaps it's context, too, though, with my having tried to emulate Renaissance typography/layout in my book -- might not work in other contexts, but I did feel it looked nice in there (as it does in the original 16th century documents, too).
EDIT: Here's the link again to my Shakespeare book...
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=279887
You don't have to actually download the book to see how that letter spacing in names looks, you can see a couple examples of it in the screenshots there. See in particular the second pic (after my book cover) of my main title page with my own name (Ron Koster) given extra spacing, and again in the 6th pic, with the title page for "Loves Martyr," with Robert Chester's name at the bottom with extra spacing.