My bad, sorry I called it "crazy spacing," Tex2002ans. I agree, it wasn't, it's more that it just felt inconsistent to me, what with spacing after an opening quote, but no spacing after a closing quote and then the variance of some contracted words having a space and some not!
As for the word joiner, I had done
some testing and wasn't seeing any particular issues, but I didn't try testing search or highlighting.
It's no biggie, I really DIDN'T want to put them in, it was more that there've been so many discussions of typography and what people like and how things should look here, I just wanted to
offer the option.
I mean, I've seen the assorted discussions here over ellipsis character vs. constructed ellipsis, the discussions over whether to use an em-dash or an en-dash and spaces, all that! I figure mostly, there's no right or wrong, just personal preference.
The good news is that there are ZERO ellipses in
Under the Lilacs!
I stripped the word joiners out of the test chapter I put them in. They are gone, so there's that.
Gotta run, much to do today, including hopefully update the file with another two chapters of corrections.