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Originally Posted by dwig
If you use 3 periods, they should not have spaces between them.
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Look at
Post #12 in the topic above where I used some different fonts on MobileRead. You can see the inconsistency in ellipsis spacing in different fonts.
When readers are fully in control of font selection... you can see where issues could arise.
Quote:
Originally Posted by dwig
A true elipsis is a single character. They do often seem overly narrow to eyes used to seeing the three periods cheat.
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Mostly why many typographers cheat and insert THIN SPACEs between periods.
That hack works in InDesign and other visual-only output, but that's a no-go in ebooks.
Quote:
Originally Posted by dwig
Personally, when I use the cheat and it ends a sentence, I prefer to separate then period following the elipsis with a space, thin space when using a decent typographic system and targeting print output.
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If you see one of the
Post #48 references I made in the topic, you can see when I tested the linebreaking of the normal THIN SPACE character and its inconsistency across programs.
Sadly, you'll still run into many cases where the previous character could get broken from the attached punctuation.