Quote:
Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
On some ereaders, the bad linebreak occurs before/after an ellipsis with NO space.
For example:
Code:
This is an example…”
This is an example….
This is an example.…
could display as:
Code:
This is an example…
”
This is an example…
.
This is an example.
…
I believe GrannyGrump (and others) noted that in those older ellipsis threads. |
lol! Both of those would not be a problem if you didn't use the period in conjunction with an ellipses!
The splitting of a ” (or !, or .) onto a new line is just the sign of a bad reader/app - especially if there isn't a space between the character and punctuation. It's like they are treating an ellipses as a non-character or a space. I would imagine those bad ereaders also exhibit issues with bad hyphenation??
In any case, a bad ereader that doesn't display something properly is beyond the realm of a book designer's control. If those people USING those bad ereaders actually notice this
small issue...
and actually care enough about it... then they can change to a different reader. Yes, there are publisher's customers out there that are uber nitpicky, and of course they want their book to look good on as many devices as possible, but the spacing between an ellipses and a ,?! probably isn't really even noticeable to the 99.99% that are NOT typesetters themselves. The sin of "bad accessibility" certainly would outweigh it in any reasonable person's mind.
I think we are definitely getting into the realm of
... and most definitely past the point of how to search for an ellipses!
Cheers!