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Old 06-03-2019, 11:44 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
On a Kindle, because they're justified, EITHER of those can be stretched, a la Rivers of White.
That reminds that, as far as I know, there is no standard (or any?) way to control stretching.

In Adobe-powered readers, at least last time I checked,   is not stretched, which causes uneven spacing when used between normal words, but it's probably exactly what you want if used for spacing out the dots in an ellipsis. According to your comment, the Kindles do stretch  , so one can't rely on either behaviour.

If using an embedded font, one could create a custom spaced-out version of …
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