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Originally Posted by CyberPaul
Here is the piece of html (taken from the original EPUB before converting it to KEPUB with Kobo Touch Extended plugin):
Nothing weird then...
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It's the HTML of this bit of text in the kepub on your Kobo that's important. Not the original epub.
I'm going to guess it looks something like this. (The id="kobo.x.x" numbers will be different):
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<p><span id="kobo.1.1" class="koboSpan">Se non avessi creduto al principio elementare che non si può continuare all’infinito a mandare roba dall’alto in basso senza contraccambiarla con un invio dal basso in alto, mi sarei lasciato vincere dal sentimentalismo. </span><span id="kobo.1.2" class="koboSpan">Ma… </span><em><span id="kobo.1.3" class="koboSpan">Tanstaafl</span></em><span id="kobo.2.1" class="koboSpan">: </span><span id="kobo.2.2" class="koboSpan">i pranzi gratis non esistono, tanto a Bombay quanto sulla Luna.</span></p>
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As you can see, it's fragmented into 5 koboSpans. The
2nd koboSpan in red is where the kepub reading app has decided to apply its ugly letter-spacing.
The koboSpan algorithm I use myself would fragment into 3 pieces, like this:
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<p><span id="kobo.1.1" class="koboSpan">Se non avessi creduto al principio elementare che non si può continuare all’infinito a mandare roba dall’alto in basso senza contraccambiarla con un invio dal basso in alto, mi sarei lasciato vincere dal sentimentalismo. Ma…</span> <em><span id="kobo.1.2" class="koboSpan">Tanstaafl</span></em><span id="kobo.2.1" class="koboSpan">: i pranzi gratis non esistono, tanto a Bombay quanto sulla Luna.</span></p>
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and would be less likely (
but not guaranteed) to display the problem you saw.
Additionally, if this was my book, I'd always have spaces around an ellipsis. I don't really worry whether others consider that to be "bad" typography. In English books it's not apparent to me that there are any "standards" about such things.